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curs_refresh(3)						       curs_refresh(3)

NAME
       curs_refresh,  doupdate,	 redrawwin,  refresh,  wrefresh, wnoutrefresh,
       wredrawln - Refresh Curses windows and lines

SYNOPSIS
       #include <curses.h>

       int doupdate(
	       void ); int redrawwin(
	       WINDOW *win ); int refresh(
	       void ); int wrefresh(
	       WINDOW *win ); int wnoutrefresh(
	       WINDOW *win ); int wredrawln(
	       WINDOW *win,
	       int beg_line,
	       int num_lines );

LIBRARY
       Curses Library (libcurses)

STANDARDS
       Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry	 stan‐
       dards as follows:

       doupdate,    redrawwin,	  wredrawln,   refresh,	  wrefresh,   wnoutre‐
       fresh:  XCURSES4.2

       Refer to the standards(5) reference page	 for  more  information	 about
       industry standards and associated tags.

DESCRIPTION
       Applications  must  call	 the  refresh  and  wrefresh  routines (or the
       wnoutrefresh and doupdate routines) to get any output on the  terminal.
       Other  Curses  routines	only  manipulate data structures. The wrefresh
       routine copies the specified window to the  physical  terminal  screen,
       taking into account what is already there in order to do optimizations.
       The refresh routine does the same operation on stdscr.  Unless  leaveok
       is  enabled,  Curses  leaves the physical cursor of the terminal at the
       location of the cursor for that window.

       The wnoutrefresh and doupdate routines allow multiple updates with more
       efficiency  than	 wrefresh  alone. In addition to all the window struc‐
       tures, Curses keeps  two	 data  structures  representing	 the  terminal
       screen:	a  physical screen, describing what is actually on the screen,
       and a virtual screen, describing what the programmer wants to  have  on
       the screen.

       The  routine wrefresh works by first calling wnoutrefresh, which copies
       the specified window to the virtual screen, and then calling  doupdate,
       which  compares	the virtual screen to the physical screen and does the
       actual update. If the programmer wants to  output  several  windows  at
       once,  a	 series	 of  calls to wrefresh results in alternating calls to
       wnoutrefresh and doupdate, causing several  bursts  of  output  to  the
       screen.	If the program first calls wnoutrefresh for each window, it is
       then possible to call doupdate once, resulting in  only	one  burst  of
       output,	with  transmission of fewer characters overall and less use of
       CPU time. If the win  argument  to  wrefresh  is	 the  global  variable
       curscr,	Curses	immediately  clears the screen and repaints the window
       from scratch.

       The redrawwin routine tells Curses that some screen lines are corrupted
       and  should  be	thrown away before anything is written over them. This
       routine could be used in programs, such as editors, that need a command
       to  redraw  some	 part  of the screen or the entire screen. The routine
       redrawln is preferred over redrawwin where a noisy  communication  line
       exists,	and  redrawing the entire window could be subject to even more
       communication noise. In this case, redrawing only several lines	offers
       the possibility that they would appear unblemished.

NOTES
       The  header  file  <curses.h>  automatically  includes  the header file
       <stdio.h>.

       Note that refresh may be a macro.

RETURN VALUES
       All routines return the integer ERR upon failure and OK upon successful
       completion.

SEE ALSO
       Functions: curses(3), curs_outopts(3)

       Others: standards(5)

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