move, wmove - move cursor in a curses window
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Description
wmove relocates the cursor associated with the curses window win to line y and column x. The terminal's
cursor does not move until refresh(3NCURSES) is called. The position (y, x) is relative to the upper
left-hand corner of the window, which has coordinates (0, 0). ncurses(3NCURSES) describes the move
variant of this function.
History
4BSD (1980) introduced these functions.
Name
move, wmove - move cursor in a curses window
Notes
move may be implemented as a macro.
Portability
X/Open Curses Issue 4 describes these functions. It specifies no error conditions for them.
SVr4 describes a successful return value only as βan integer value other than ERRβ.
Return Value
These functions return OK on success and ERR on failure.
They fail if the position (y, x) is outside the window boundaries.
In ncurses, wmove fails if win is NULL.
See Also
ncurses(3NCURSES), refresh(3NCURSES) ncurses 6.5 2025-02-01 move(3NCURSES)
Synopsis
#include<curses.h>intmove(inty,intx);intwmove(WINDOW*win,inty,intx);
