touch(3NCURSES) 														   touch(3NCURSES)

NAME

       touchwin, touchline, untouchwin, wtouchln, is_linetouched, is_wintouched - curses refresh control routines

SYNOPSIS

       #include <curses.h>
       int touchwin(WINDOW *win);
       int touchline(WINDOW *win, int start, int count);
       int untouchwin(WINDOW *win);
       int wtouchln(WINDOW *win, int y, int n, int changed);
       bool is_linetouched(WINDOW *win, int line);
       bool is_wintouched(WINDOW *win);

DESCRIPTION

       The  touchwin and touchline routines throw away all optimization information about which parts of the window have been touched, by pretend-
       ing that the entire window has been drawn on.  This is sometimes necessary when using overlapping windows, since a change to one window af-
       fects the other window, but the records of which lines have been changed in the other window do not reflect the change.	The routine touch-
       line only pretends that count lines have been changed, beginning with line start.

       The untouchwin routine marks all lines in the window as unchanged since the last call to wrefresh.

       The wtouchln routine makes n lines in the window, starting at line y, look as if they have (changed=1) or have not (changed=0) been changed
       since the last call to wrefresh.

       The is_linetouched and is_wintouched routines return TRUE if the specified line/window was modified since the last call to wrefresh; other-
       wise they return FALSE.	In addition, is_linetouched returns ERR if line is not valid for the given window.

RETURN VALUE

       All routines return the integer ERR upon failure and an integer value other than ERR upon successful completion, unless otherwise noted	in
       the preceding routine descriptions.

       X/Open does not define any error conditions.  In this implementation

	      is_linetouched
		   returns  an	error  if the window pointer is null, or if the line number is outside the window.  Note that ERR is distinct from
		   TRUE and FALSE, which are the normal return values of this function.

	      wtouchln
		   returns an error if the window pointer is null, or if the line number is outside the window.

PORTABILITY

       The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these functions.

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

NOTES

       Note that all routines except wtouchln may be macros.

SEE ALSO

       ncurses(3NCURSES), refresh(3NCURSES), curses_variables(3NCURSES).

																   touch(3NCURSES)