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curs_scroll(3X)						       curs_scroll(3X)

NAME
       scroll, scrl, wscrl - scroll a curses window

SYNOPSIS
       #include	<curses.h>

       int scroll(WINDOW *win);

       int scrl(int n);
       int wscrl(WINDOW	*win, int n);

DESCRIPTION
       The  scroll routine scrolls the window up one line.  This involves mov-
       ing 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.

       For  positive  n,  the  scrl  and wscrl routines	scroll the window up n
       lines (line i+n becomes i); otherwise scroll the	window down  n	lines.
       This involves moving the	lines in the window character image structure.
       The current cursor position is not changed.

       For these functions to work, scrolling must be enabled via scrollok.

RETURN VALUE
       These routines return ERR upon failure, and OK (SVr4 only specifies "an
       integer value other than	ERR") upon successful completion.

       X/Open defines no error conditions.

       This  implementation returns an error if	the window pointer is null, or
       if scrolling is not enabled in the window, e.g.,	with scrollok.

NOTES
       Note that scrl and scroll may be	macros.

       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.

       Neither the SVr4	nor the	XSI documentation specify whether the  current
       attribute or current color-pair of blanks generated by the scroll func-
       tion is zeroed.	Under this implementation it is.

PORTABILITY
       The XSI Curses standard,	Issue 4	describes these	functions.

SEE ALSO
       curses(3X), curs_outopts(3X)

							       curs_scroll(3X)

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

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