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curs_outopts(3)	    UNIX Programmer's Manual	  curs_outopts(3)

NAME
     clearok, idlok, idcok, immedok, leaveok, setscrreg,
     wsetscrreg, scrollok, nl, nonl - curses output options

SYNOPSIS
     #include <curses.h>

     int clearok(WINDOW *win, bool bf);
     int idlok(WINDOW *win, bool bf);
     void idcok(WINDOW *win, bool bf);
     void immedok(WINDOW *win, bool bf);
     int leaveok(WINDOW *win, bool bf);
     int setscrreg(int top, int bot);
     int wsetscrreg(WINDOW *win, int top, int bot);
     int scrollok(WINDOW *win, bool bf);
     int nl(void);
     int nonl(void);

DESCRIPTION
     These routines set options that change the style  of  output
     within  curses. All options are initially FALSE, unless oth-
     erwise stated. It is not necessary to turn these options off
     before calling endwin.

     If clearok is called with TRUE as argument, the next call to
     wrefresh  with  this window will clear the screen completely
     and redraw the entire screen from scratch.	 This  is  useful
     when  the	contents  of the screen are uncertain, or in some
     cases for a more pleasing visual effect. If the win argument
     to	 clearok  is the global variable curscr, the next call to
     wrefresh with any window causes the screen to be cleared and
     repainted from scratch.

     If idlok is called with TRUE as second argument, curses con-
     siders using the hardware insert/delete line feature of ter-
     minals so equipped. Calling idlok with FALSE as second argu-
     ment  disables  use of line insertion and deletion. This op-
     tion  should  be  enabled	only  if  the  application  needs
     insert/delete  line, for example, for a screen editor. It is
     disabled by default because insert/delete line tends  to  be
     visually  annoying	 when used in applications where it isn't
     really needed. If insert/delete line cannot be used,  curses
     redraws the changed portions of all lines.

     If idcok is called with FALSE as second argument, curses  no
     longer  considers using the hardware insert/delete character
     feature  of  terminals  so	 equipped.   Use   of	character
     insert/delete is enabled by default. Calling idcok with TRUE
     as second argument re-enables use of character insertion and
     deletion.

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     If immedok is called with TRUE as argument,  any  change  in
     the window image, such as the ones caused by waddch, wclrto-
     bot, wscrl, etc., automatically cause a  call  to	wrefresh.
     However, it may degrade performance considerably, due to re-
     peated calls to wrefresh. It is disabled by default.

     Normally, the hardware cursor is left at the location of the
     window cursor being refreshed. The leaveok option allows the
     cursor to be left wherever the update happens to  leave  it.
     It	 is useful for applications where the cursor is not used,
     since it reduces the need for cursor motions.

     The setscrreg and wsetscrreg routines allow the  application
     programmer	 to  set a software scrolling region in a window.
     top and bot are the line numbers of the top and bottom  mar-
     gin  of the scrolling region. (Line 0 is the top line of the
     window.)  If this option and scrollok are	enabled,  an  at-
     tempt to move off the bottom margin line causes all lines in
     the scrolling region to scroll one line in the direction  of
     the  first	 line.	Only  the text of the window is scrolled.
     (Note that this has nothing to do with the use of a physical
     scrolling	region	capability  in the terminal, like that in
     the VT100. If idlok is enabled and the terminal has either a
     scrolling region or insert/delete line capability, they will
     probably be used by the output routines.)

     The scrollok option controls what happens when the cursor of
     a	window	is  moved off the edge of the window or scrolling
     region, either as a result of a newline action on the bottom
     line, or typing the last character of the last line. If dis-
     abled, (bf is FALSE), the cursor is left on the bottom line.
     If enabled, (bf is TRUE), the window is scrolled up one line
     (Note that to get the physical scrolling effect on the  ter-
     minal, it is also necessary to call idlok).

     The nl and nonl  routines	control	 whether  the  underlying
     display device translates the return key into newline on in-
     put, and whether  it  translates  newline	into  return  and
     line-feed	on  output  (in either case, the call addch('\n')
     does the equivalent of return and line feed on  the  virtual
     screen). Initially, these translations do occur. If you dis-
     able them using nonl, curses will be able to make better use
     of	 the line-feed capability, resulting in faster cursor mo-
     tion. Also, curses will then be able to  detect  the  return
     key.

RETURN VALUE
     The functions setscrreg and wsetscrreg return OK  upon  suc-
     cess and ERR upon failure. All other routines that return an
     integer always return OK.

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     X/Open does not define any error conditions.

     In this implementation, those functions that have	a  window
     pointer will return an error if the window pointer is null.

	  wclrtoeol
	       returns an error if the cursor position	is  about
	       to wrap.

	  wsetscrreg
	       returns an error if the	scrolling  region  limits
	       extend outside the window.

     X/Open does not define any error conditions. This	implemen-
     tation returns an error if the window pointer is null.

PORTABILITY
     These functions are described in the  XSI	Curses	standard,
     Issue 4.

     The XSI Curses standard is	 ambiguous  on	the  question  of
     whether  raw()  should  disable  the  CRLF translations con-
     trolled by nl() and nonl(). BSD curses did	 turn  off  these
     translations;  AT&T  curses  (at  least as late as SVr1) did
     not. We choose to do so, on the theory that a programmer re-
     questing  raw input wants a clean (ideally 8-bit clean) con-
     nection that the operating system will not alter.

     Some historic curses implementations had, as an undocumented
     feature, the ability to do the equivalent of clearok(..., 1)
     by saying touchwin(stdscr) or clear(stdscr). This	will  not
     work under ncurses.

     Earlier System V curses implementations specified that  with
     scrollok  enabled,	 any  window  modification  triggering	a
     scroll also forced a physical refresh. XSI Curses	does  not
     require  this, and ncurses avoids doing it to perform better
     vertical-motion optimization at wrefresh time.

     The XSI Curses standard does not  mention	that  the  cursor
     should  be	 made invisible as a side-effect of leaveok. SVr4
     curses documentation does this, but the code does	not.  Use
     curs_set to make the cursor invisible.

NOTES
     Note that clearok, leaveok, scrollok, idcok,  nl,	nonl  and
     setscrreg may be macros.

     The immedok routine is useful for windows that are	 used  as
     terminal emulators.

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SEE ALSO
     curses(3),	 curs_addch(3),	 curs_clear(3),	 curs_initscr(3),
     curs_scroll(3), curs_refresh(3)

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