curs_addwstr.3x - Man Page

add a wide-character string to a curses window and advance the cursor

Synopsis

#include <curses.h>

int addwstr(const wchar_t *wstr);
int mvaddwstr(int y, int x, const wchar_t *wstr);
int mvwaddwstr(WINDOW *win, int y, int x, const wchar_t *wstr);
int waddwstr(WINDOW *win, const wchar_t *wstr);

int addnwstr(const wchar_t *wstr, int n);
int mvaddnwstr(int y, int x, const wchar_t *wstr, int n);
int mvwaddnwstr(WINDOW *win, int y, int x, const wchar_t *wstr, int n);
int waddnwstr(WINDOW *win, const wchar_t *wstr, int n);

Description

waddwstr writes the characters of the (wide-null-terminated) wide-character string wstr to the window win. Its process is similar to constructing a cchar_t for each wchar_t in wstr, then calling wadd_wch(3X) with the resulting cchar_t.

waddnwstr writes at most n wide characters, or until a terminating wide null character occurs in wstr. If n is -1, waddnwstr writes the entire wide string.

ncurses(3X) describes the variants of these functions.

Return Value

These functions return OK on success and ERR on failure.

In ncurses, they return ERR if

Functions prefixed with “mv” first perform cursor movement and fail if the position (y, x) is outside the window boundaries.

Notes

All of these functions except waddnwstr may be implemented as macros.

Portability

X/Open Curses, Issue 4 describes these functions.

See Also

curs_addstr(3X) describes comparable functions of the ncurses library in its non-wide-character configuration.

curses(3X), curs_add_wch(3X), curs_add_wchstr(3X)

Referenced By

The man pages addnwstr.3x(3), addwstr.3x(3), mvaddnwstr.3x(3), mvaddwstr.3x(3), mvwaddnwstr.3x(3), mvwaddwstr.3x(3), waddnwstr.3x(3) and waddwstr.3x(3) are aliases of curs_addwstr.3x(3).

2024-06-01 ncurses 6.5 Library calls