The delwin() function deletes the specified window, freeing up the memory associated with it.

Deleting a parent window without deleting its subwindows and then trying to manipulate the subwindows will have undefined results.

win

Is a pointer to the window that is to be deleted.

On success, this functions returns OK. Otherwise, it returns ERR.

None.

derwin(3XCURSES), dupwin(3XCURSES)