Ncurses and Standard Functions

Ok im just starting to learn the ncurses api and have been experimenting

Code:

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#include <ncurses.h>

int main()
{
        initscr();
        printw("Hello World");
        getch();
        endwin();
        return 0;
}

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The hello world program they show you printw is a ncurses print and still not quite sure on how it works exactly yet however if I change printw to say puts or printf Hello World doesnt display.

Now ive been going through the man pages and the main ncurses tutorial (http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Pro...elloworld.html), now it doesnt state that you can or cant use the standard functions Im guessing by the experiement and the result I got (a blank screen) i have to use the ncurses printf version.

Now firstly is it possible, i probably already answered my question and if I have does anyone know of a link just to verify why this happens ive been searching and unfortunately cant find anything which states the stdio functions dont work.

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Code:

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#include <ncurses.h>

int main()
{
    initscr();
    printw("Hello World");
    getch();
    endwin();
    return 0;
}

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Does that even work? It lacks refresh().

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Now firstly is it possible

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I don't know the answer =), but unless there's a good reason to then why even mess with it.

No it doesnt work I accidently deleted it from the original code when experiementing. Why, well mainly because in some cases being able to use puts and scanf would be good however I dont think there really is a puts alternative other then using wprint and using the newline character.

Code:

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wprint("\n");

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Scanf has its own function but just remembering to have to switch between using the standard functions and using ncurses wrapper functions is going to be a tad annoying. Just thought it might be possible i guess its not.