#include <curses.h>
int scr_dump(const char *filename);
int scr_restore(const char *filename);
int scr_init(const char *filename);
int scr_set(const char *filename);
The scr_dump() routine dumps the current contents of the
virtual screen to the file filename.
The scr_restore() routine sets the virtual screen to the
contents of filename, which must have been written using
scr_dump(). The next call to
doupdate() restores the screen
to the way it looked in the dump file.
The scr_init() routine reads in the contents of
filename and
uses them to initialize the curses data structures about
what the terminal currently has on its screen. If the
data is determined to be valid, curses bases its next
update of the screen on this information rather than
clearing the screen and starting from scratch. scr_init()
is used after initscr() or a system()
call to share the screen with another process which has
done a scr_dump() after its endwin()
call. The data is
declared invalid if the terminfo capabilities rmcup() and
nrrmc() exist; also if the terminal has been written to
since the preceding scr_dump() call.
The scr_set() routine is a combination of
scr_restore() and
scr_init(). It tells the program that the information in
filename is what is currently on the screen, and also what
the program wants on the screen. This can be thought of
as a screen inheritance function.
To read (write) a window from (to) a file, use the
getwin()
and putwin() routines [see
curs_util()].
All routines return the integer ERR upon failure and
OK
upon success.
Note that scr_init(), scr_set(), and
scr_restore() may be macros.
The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4, describes these functions (adding the
const qualifiers).
The SVr4 docs merely say under scr_init() that the dump data
is also considered invalid "if the time-stamp of the tty
is old" but don't define "old".
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