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.\" Copyright 1989 AT&T
.\" Portions Copyright (c) 1996, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
.TH curs_printw 3CURSES "31 Dec 1996" "SunOS 5.11" "Curses Library Functions"
.SH NAME
curs_printw, printw, wprintw, mvprintw, mvwprintw, vwprintw \- print formatted output in curses windows
.SH SYNOPSIS
.LP
.nf
\fBcc\fR [ \fIflag\fR ... ] \fIfile\fR ... \fB-lcurses\fR [ \fIlibrary\fR ... ]
#include <curses.h>

\fBint\fR \fBprintw\fR(\fBchar *\fR\fIfmt\fR, \fB/*\fR \fIarg\fR */ ... );
.fi

.LP
.nf
\fBint\fR \fBwprintw\fR(\fBWINDOW *\fR\fIwin\fR, \fBchar *\fR\fIfmt\fR, \fB/*\fR \fIarg\fR */ ... );
.fi

.LP
.nf
\fBint\fR \fBmvprintw\fR(\fBint\fR \fIy\fR, \fBint\fR \fIx\fR, \fBchar *\fR\fIfmt\fR, \fB/*\fR \fIarg\fR */ ... );
.fi

.LP
.nf
\fBint\fR \fBmvwprintw\fR(\fBWINDOW *\fR\fIwin\fR, \fBint\fR \fIy\fR, \fBint\fR \fIx\fR, \fBchar *\fR\fIfmt\fR, \fB/*\fR \fIarg\fR */... );
.fi

.LP
.nf
#include <varargs.h>

\fBint\fR \fBvwprintw\fR(\fBWINDOW *\fR\fIwin\fR, \fBchar *\fR\fIfmt\fR, \fB/*\fR \fIvarglist\fR */ ... );
.fi

.SH DESCRIPTION
.sp
.LP
The \fBprintw()\fR, \fBwprintw()\fR, \fBmvprintw()\fR, and \fBmvwprintw()\fR routines are analogous to \fBprintf()\fR (see \fBprintf\fR(3C) ). In effect, the string that would be output by \fBprintf()\fR is output instead as though \fBwaddstr()\fR were used on the given window.
.sp
.LP
The \fBvwprintw()\fR routine is analogous to \fBvprintf()\fR (see \fBvprintf\fR(3C)) and performs a \fBwprintw()\fR using a variable argument list. The third argument is a \fBva_list\fR, a pointer to a list of arguments, as defined in \fB<varargs.h>\fR\&.
.SH RETURN VALUES
.sp
.LP
All routines return the integer \fBERR\fR upon failure and an integer value other than \fBERR\fR upon successful completion.
.SH ATTRIBUTES
.sp
.LP
See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp

.sp
.TS
tab() box;
cw(2.75i) |cw(2.75i) 
lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i) 
.
ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
_
MT-LevelUnsafe
.TE

.SH SEE ALSO
.sp
.LP
\fBcurses\fR(3CURSES), \fBprintf\fR(3C), \fBvprintf\fR(3C), \fBattributes\fR(5)
.SH NOTES
.sp
.LP
The header <\fBcurses.h\fR> automatically includes the headers  <\fBstdio.h\fR> and <\fBunctrl.h\fR>.