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curs_bkgd(3)							  curs_bkgd(3)

NAME
       bkgdset, wbkgdset, bkgd, wbkgd, getbkgd - curses window background
       manipulation routines

SYNOPSIS
       #include <curses.h>

       void bkgdset(chtype ch);
       void wbkgdset(WINDOW *win, chtype ch);
       int bkgd(chtype ch);
       int wbkgd(WINDOW *win, chtype ch);
       chtype getbkgd(WINDOW *win);

DESCRIPTION
       The bkgdset and wbkgdset routines manipulate the background of the
       named window.  The window background is a chtype consisting of any
       combination of attributes (i.e., rendition) and a character.  The
       attribute part of the background is combined (OR'ed) with all non-blank
       characters that are written into the window with waddch.	 Both the
       character and attribute parts of the background are combined with the
       blank characters.  The background becomes a property of the character
       and moves with the character through any scrolling and insert/delete
       line/character operations.

       To the extent possible on a particular terminal, the attribute part of
       the background is displayed as the graphic rendition of the character
       put on the screen.

       The bkgd and wbkgd functions set the background property of the current
       or specified window and then apply this setting to every character
       position in that window:
	      The rendition of every character on the screen is changed to the
	      new background rendition.

	      Wherever the former background character appears, it is changed
	      to the new background character.

       The getbkgd function returns the given window's current background
       character/attribute pair.

RETURN VALUE
       The routines bkgd and wbkgd return the integer OK.  The SVr4.0 manual
       says "or a non-negative integer if immedok is set", but this appears to
       be an error.

NOTES
       Note that bkgdset and bkgd may be macros.

PORTABILITY
       These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard, Issue 4.  It
       specifies that bkgd and wbkgd return ERR on failure.  but gives no
       failure conditions.

SEE ALSO
       curses(3), curs_addch(3), curs_attr(3), curs_outopts(3)

								 March 1, 2011
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