Ncurses help

[TheThirdL3g]

Well I started learning c++ today after being inspired by them. I decided to begin with a console rpg. But after getting half the game done, I decided that I wanted a better console experience. I did some research and found ncurses. I installed and started playing around with it. This code has some sections with my just playing around (Like moving of the window with the arrows) but this is also going to be a future stat window that will pop up and close. I got it working but I can't display int variables in the window with wprintw(" "). I'm think its because I'm trying to display a int when it expects a string.
Here is my code:

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#include <ncurses.h>

WINDOW *create_newwin(int height, int width, int starty, int startx);
void destroy_win(WINDOW *local_win);
	
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{	WINDOW *my_win;
	int startx, starty, width, height;
	int ch;
	int strength;
	int curlvl = 1;
	
	initscr();			/* Start curses mode 		*/
	cbreak();
	keypad(stdscr, TRUE);

	height = 3;
	width = 10;
	starty = (LINES - height) / 2;	/* Calculating for a center placement */
	startx = (COLS - width) / 2;	/* of the window		*/
	printw("Press F6 to exit");
	refresh();
	if (curlvl = 1){
		strength = 5;
	}
	my_win = create_newwin(height, width, starty, startx);
	while((ch = getch()) != KEY_F(6))
	{	switch(ch)
		{	case KEY_LEFT:
				destroy_win(my_win);
				my_win = create_newwin(height, width, starty,--startx);
				wprintw(my_win, "Hey");
				wrefresh(my_win);
				break;
			case KEY_RIGHT:
				destroy_win(my_win);
				my_win = create_newwin(height, width, starty,++startx);
				break;
			case KEY_UP:
				destroy_win(my_win);
				my_win = create_newwin(height, width, --starty,startx);
				break;
			case KEY_DOWN:
				destroy_win(my_win);
				my_win = create_newwin(height, width, ++starty,startx);
				break;	
			case KEY_F(5):
				destroy_win(my_win);
				break;
			case KEY_F(7):
				my_win = create_newwin(height, width, starty, startx);
				mvwprintw(my_win,1,1, strength);
				wrefresh(my_win);
				break;
		}
	}
	
	endwin();			/* End curses mode		  */
	return 0;
}

WINDOW *create_newwin(int height, int width, int starty, int startx)
{	WINDOW *local_win;

	local_win = newwin(height, width, starty, startx);
	box(local_win, 0 , 0);	

	wrefresh(local_win);	

	return local_win;
}

void destroy_win(WINDOW *local_win)
{	
	wborder(local_win, ' ', ' ', ' ',' ',' ',' ',' ',' ');
	wrefresh(local_win);
	delwin(local_win);
}

This is the error I get:

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invalid conversion from ‘int’ to ‘const char*’
initializing argument 4 of ‘int mvwprintw(WINDOW*, int, int, const char*, ...)’

[MarauderIIC]

http://linux.die.net/man/3/wprintw
The printw, wprintw, mvprintw and mvwprintw routines are analogous to
printf [see printf(3)].

http://linux.die.net/man/3/printf
http://www.cppreference.com/wiki/c/io/printf

In short, you're calling it wrong.

Edit: Sorry for the terse reply, but it's kind of late. Welcome to the forums! :D