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curs_overlay(3X)					      curs_overlay(3X)

NAME
       overlay,	overwrite, copywin - overlay and manipulate overlapped curses
       windows

SYNOPSIS
       #include	<curses.h>

       int overlay(const WINDOW	*srcwin, WINDOW	*dstwin);
       int overwrite(const WINDOW *srcwin, WINDOW *dstwin);
       int copywin(const WINDOW	*srcwin, WINDOW	*dstwin, int sminrow,
	     int smincol, int dminrow, int dmincol, int	dmaxrow,
	     int dmaxcol, int overlay);

DESCRIPTION
   overlay, overwrite
       The  overlay  and  overwrite  routines overlay srcwin on	top of dstwin.
       scrwin and dstwin are not required to be	the same size; only text where
       the two windows overlap is copied.  The difference is that  overlay  is
       non-destructive	(blanks	 are not copied) whereas overwrite is destruc-
       tive.

   copywin
       The copywin routine provides a finer granularity	of  control  over  the
       overlay	and overwrite routines.	 As in the prefresh routine, a rectan-
       gle is specified	in the	destination  window,  (dminrow,	 dmincol)  and
       (dmaxrow, dmaxcol), and the upper-left-corner coordinates of the	source
       window,	(sminrow,  smincol).   If  the	argument overlay is true, then
       copying is non-destructive, as in overlay.

RETURN VALUE
       Routines	that return an integer return ERR upon failure,	and  OK	 (SVr4
       only  specifies "an integer value other than ERR") upon successful com-
       pletion.

       X/Open defines no error conditions.  In this  implementation,  copywin,
       overlay	and overwrite return an	error if either	of the window pointers
       are null, or if some part of the	window would be	placed off-screen.

NOTES
       Note that overlay and overwrite may be macros.

PORTABILITY
       The XSI Curses standard,	Issue 4	describes these	functions (adding  the
       const qualifiers).  It further specifies	their behavior in the presence
       of  characters with multibyte renditions	(not yet supported in this im-
       plementation).

SEE ALSO
       curses(3X), curs_pad(3X), curs_refresh(3X)

							      curs_overlay(3X)

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | NOTES | PORTABILITY | SEE ALSO

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