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diff --git a/upstream/opensuse-leap-15-6/man3/scroll.3ncurses b/upstream/opensuse-leap-15-6/man3/scroll.3ncurses new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8a4300ab --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/opensuse-leap-15-6/man3/scroll.3ncurses @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +.\"*************************************************************************** +.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2006,2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * +.\" * +.\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a * +.\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the * +.\" "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including * +.\" without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, * +.\" distribute, distribute with modifications, sublicense, and/or sell * +.\" copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is * +.\" furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: * +.\" * +.\" The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included * +.\" in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * +.\" * +.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS * +.\" OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF * +.\" MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. * +.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE ABOVE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, * +.\" DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR * +.\" OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR * +.\" THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. * +.\" * +.\" Except as contained in this notice, the name(s) of the above copyright * +.\" holders shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the * +.\" sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written * +.\" authorization. * +.\"*************************************************************************** +.\" +.\" $Id: curs_scroll.3x,v 1.15 2010/12/04 18:40:45 tom Exp $ +.TH scroll 3NCURSES "" +.na +.hy 0 +.SH NAME +\fBscroll\fR, +\fBscrl\fR, +\fBwscrl\fR \- scroll a \fBcurses\fR window +.ad +.hy +.SH SYNOPSIS +\fB#include <ncursesw/curses.h>\fR +.sp +\fBint scroll(WINDOW *win);\fR +.br +\fBint scrl(int n);\fR +.br +\fBint wscrl(WINDOW *win, int n);\fR +.br +.SH DESCRIPTION +The \fBscroll\fR routine scrolls the window up one line. +This involves moving +the lines in the window data structure. +As an optimization, if the scrolling +region of the window is the entire screen, the physical screen may be scrolled +at the same time. +.PP +For positive \fIn\fR, the \fBscrl\fR and \fBwscrl\fR routines scroll the +window up \fIn\fR lines (line \fIi\fR+\fIn\fR becomes \fIi\fR); otherwise +scroll the window down \fIn\fR lines. +This involves moving the lines in the +window character image structure. +The current cursor position is not changed. +.PP +For these functions to work, scrolling must be enabled via \fBscrollok\fR. +.SH RETURN VALUE +These routines return \fBERR\fR upon failure, and \fBOK\fR (SVr4 only specifies +"an integer value other than \fBERR\fR") upon successful completion. +.PP +X/Open defines no error conditions. +.PP +This implementation returns an error +if the window pointer is null, or +if scrolling is not enabled in the window, e.g., with \fBscrollok\fP. +.SH NOTES +Note that \fBscrl\fR and \fBscroll\fR may be macros. +.PP +The SVr4 documentation says that the optimization of physically scrolling +immediately if the scroll region is the entire screen "is" performed, not +"may be" performed. +This implementation deliberately does not guarantee +that this will occur, to leave open the possibility of smarter +optimization of multiple scroll actions on the next update. +.PP +Neither the SVr4 nor the XSI documentation specify whether the current +attribute or +current color-pair of blanks generated by the scroll function is zeroed. +Under this implementation it is. +.SH PORTABILITY +The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these functions. +.SH SEE ALSO +\fBncurses\fR(3NCURSES), \fBoutopts\fR(3NCURSES) |