touchwin(3cur)touchwin(3cur)Name
touchwin - touch window
Syntax
#include <cursesX.h>
int touchwin(win)
WINDOW *win;
Description
This routine discards all optimization information for the specified window and assumes that the entire window has been drawn on.
This is sometimes necessary when using overlapping windows, as a change to one window will affect the other window. The records of which
lines have been changed may not be correct for the window which has not been changed directly.
Return Values
The function returns OK on success and ERR on error.
touchwin(3cur)
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curs_touch(3X)curs_touch(3X)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
affects the other window, but the records of which lines have been changed in the other window do not reflect the change. The routine
touchline 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.
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 curses(3X), curs_refresh(3X).
curs_touch(3X)