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33.Dd August 12, 2002
34.Dt CURSES_TOUCH 3
35.Os
36.Sh NAME
37.Nm curses_touch ,
38.Nm touchline ,
39.Nm touchoverlap ,
40.Nm touchwin ,
41.Nm untouchwin ,
42.Nm wtouchln ,
43.Nm is_linetouched ,
44.Nm is_wintouched
45.Nd curses window modification routines
46.Sh LIBRARY
47.Lb libcurses
48.Sh SYNOPSIS
49.In curses.h
50.Ft int
51.Fn touchline "WINDOW *win" "int row" "int start" "int end"
52.Ft int
53.Fn touchoverlap "WINDOW *win1" "WINDOW *win2"
54.Ft int
55.Fn touchwin "WINDOW *win"
56.Ft int
57.Fn untouchwin "WINDOW *win"
58.Ft int
59.Fn wtouchln "WINDOW *win" "int line" "int n" "boolf changed"
60.Ft bool
61.Fn is_linetouched "WINDOW *win" "int line"
62.Ft bool
63.Fn is_wintouched "WINDOW *win"
64.Sh DESCRIPTION
65These functions mark lines and windows as modified and check the modification
66status of lines and windows.
67.Pp
68The
69.Fn touchline
70function marks the characters from
71.Fa start
72to
73.Fa end
74on row
75.Fa row
76in window
77.Fa win
78as having been modified.
79These characters will be synced to the terminal on the next call to
80.Fn wrefresh .
81.Pp
82The
83.Fn touchoverlap
84function marks the portion of
85.Fa win2
86that overlaps
87.Fa win1
88as being modified.
89.Pp
90The
91.Fn touchwin
92function marks the entire window
93.Fa win
94as having been modified.
95Conversely,
96the
97.Fn untouchwin
98function marks the window
99.Fa win
100as being unmodified, so that any changes made to that window will
101not be synced to the terminal during a
102.Fn wrefresh .
103.Pp
104The
105.Fn wtouchln
106function performs one of two operations on
107.Fa n
108lines starting at
109.Fa line
110in the given window.
111If
112.Fa changed
113is 1 then the given line range is marked as being modified, if
114.Fa changed
115is 0 then the given line range is set to being unmodified.
116.Pp
117The
118.Fn is_linetouched
119function returns
120.Dv TRUE
121if
122.Fa line
123in window
124.Fa win
125has been modified since the last refresh was done, othereise
126.Dv FALSE
127is returned.
128.Pp
129.Fn is_wintouched
130returns
131.Dv TRUE
132if the window
133.Fa win
134has been modified since the last refresh, otherwise
135.Dv FALSE
136is returned.
137.Sh RETURN VALUES
138Functions returning pointers will return
139.Dv NULL
140if an error is detected.
141The functions that return an int will return one of the following
142values:
143.Pp
144.Bl -tag -width ERR -compact
145.It Er OK
146The function completed successfully.
147.It Er ERR
148An error occurred in the function.
149.El
150.Sh SEE ALSO
151.Xr curses_refresh 3
152.Sh STANDARDS
153The
154.Nx
155Curses library complies with the X/Open Curses specification, part of the
156Single Unix Specification.
157.Sh HISTORY
158The Curses package appeared in
159.Bx 4.0 .
160