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<H1 class="no-header">curs_overlay 3x 2024-04-20 ncurses 6.5 Library calls</H1>
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<STRONG><A HREF="curs_overlay.3x.html">curs_overlay(3x)</A></STRONG> Library calls <STRONG><A HREF="curs_overlay.3x.html">curs_overlay(3x)</A></STRONG>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>overlay</STRONG>, <STRONG>overwrite</STRONG>, <STRONG>copywin</STRONG> - overlay <EM>curses</EM> windows and manipulate
them
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG><curses.h></STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>overlay(const</STRONG> <STRONG>WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>srcwin</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>dstwin</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>overwrite(const</STRONG> <STRONG>WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>srcwin</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>dstwin</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>copywin(const</STRONG> <STRONG>WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>srcwin</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>dstwin</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>sminrow</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>smincol</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>dminrow</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>dmincol</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>dmaxrow</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>dmaxcol</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>overlay</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-overlay_overwrite">overlay, overwrite</a></H3><PRE>
The <STRONG>overlay</STRONG> and <STRONG>overwrite</STRONG> routines overlay <EM>srcwin</EM> on top of <EM>dstwin</EM>.
<EM>scrwin</EM> and <EM>dstwin</EM> are not required to be the same size; only text where
the two windows overlap is copied. The difference is that <STRONG>overlay</STRONG> is
non-destructive (blanks are not copied) whereas <STRONG>overwrite</STRONG> is
destructive.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-copywin">copywin</a></H3><PRE>
The <STRONG>copywin</STRONG> routine provides a finer granularity of control over the
<STRONG>overlay</STRONG> and <STRONG>overwrite</STRONG> routines. As in the <STRONG>prefresh</STRONG> routine, a
rectangle is specified in the destination window, (<EM>dminrow</EM>, <EM>dmincol</EM>)
and (<EM>dmaxrow</EM>, <EM>dmaxcol</EM>), and the upper-left-corner coordinates of the
source window, (<EM>sminrow</EM>, <EM>smincol</EM>). If the argument <EM>overlay</EM> is <STRONG>true</STRONG>,
then copying is non-destructive, as in <STRONG>overlay</STRONG>.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
These routines return the integer <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure and an <STRONG>OK</STRONG> (SVr4
specifies only "an integer value other than <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>") upon successful
completion.
X/Open defines no error conditions. In this implementation, <STRONG>copywin</STRONG>,
<STRONG>overlay</STRONG> and <STRONG>overwrite</STRONG> return an error if either of the window pointers
are null, or if some part of the window would be placed off-screen.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></H2><PRE>
Note that <STRONG>overlay</STRONG> and <STRONG>overwrite</STRONG> may be macros.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
These functions are described in X/Open Curses, Issue 4, which adds
<EM>const</EM> qualifiers to the arguments. It further specifies their behavior
in the presence of characters with multibyte renditions (not yet
supported in this implementation).
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_pad.3x.html">curs_pad(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_refresh.3x.html">curs_refresh(3x)</A></STRONG>
ncurses 6.5 2024-04-20 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_overlay.3x.html">curs_overlay(3x)</A></STRONG>
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