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-<H1 class="no-header">curs_getcchar 3x 2023-09-16 ncurses 6.4 Library calls</H1>
+<H1 class="no-header">curs_getcchar 3x 2024-04-13 ncurses 6.4 Library calls</H1>
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<STRONG><A HREF="curs_getcchar.3x.html">curs_getcchar(3x)</A></STRONG> Library calls <STRONG><A HREF="curs_getcchar.3x.html">curs_getcchar(3x)</A></STRONG>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>getcchar</STRONG>, <STRONG>setcchar</STRONG> - convert between a wide-character string and a
- <EM>curses</EM> complex character string
+ <EM>curses</EM> complex character
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>o</STRONG> Stores the character attributes in the location pointed to by <EM>attrs</EM>
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> Stores the color-pair in the location pointed to by <EM>color</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>pair</EM>
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> Stores the color pair in the location pointed to by <EM>color</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>pair</EM>
<STRONG>o</STRONG> Stores the wide-character string, characters referenced by <EM>wcval</EM>,
into the array pointed to by <EM>wch</EM>.
L'\0' terminated, contain at most one spacing character, which must
be the first.
- Up to <STRONG>CCHARW_MAX</STRONG>-1 nonspacing characters may follow. Additional
- nonspacing characters are ignored.
+ Up to <STRONG>CCHARW_MAX</STRONG>-1 non-spacing characters may follow. Additional
+ non-spacing characters are ignored.
The string may contain a single control character instead. In that
- case, no nonspacing characters are allowed.
+ case, no non-spacing characters are allowed.
-</PRE><H2><a name="h2-EXTENSIONS">EXTENSIONS</a></H2><PRE>
- X/Open Curses documents the <EM>opts</EM> argument as reserved for future use,
- saying that it must be null. This implementation uses that parameter
- in ABI 6 for the functions which have a color-pair parameter to support
- extended color pairs:
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
+ When <EM>wch</EM> is a null pointer, <STRONG>getcchar</STRONG> returns the number of wide
+ characters referenced by <EM>wcval</EM>, including one for a trailing null.
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> For functions which modify the color, e.g., <STRONG>setcchar</STRONG>, if <EM>opts</EM> is
- set it is treated as a pointer to <STRONG>int</STRONG>, and used to set the color
- pair instead of the <STRONG>short</STRONG> pair parameter.
+ When <EM>wch</EM> is not a null pointer, <STRONG>getcchar</STRONG> returns <STRONG>OK</STRONG> upon successful
+ completion, and <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> otherwise.
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> For functions which retrieve the color, e.g., <STRONG>getcchar</STRONG>, if <EM>opts</EM> is
- set it is treated as a pointer to <STRONG>int</STRONG>, and used to retrieve the
- color pair as an <STRONG>int</STRONG> value, in addition retrieving it via the
- standard pointer to <STRONG>short</STRONG> parameter.
+ Upon successful completion, <STRONG>setcchar</STRONG> returns <STRONG>OK</STRONG>. Otherwise, it returns
+ <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></H2><PRE>
by any other means, the effect is unspecified.
-</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
- When <EM>wch</EM> is a null pointer, <STRONG>getcchar</STRONG> returns the number of wide
- characters referenced by <EM>wcval</EM>, including one for a trailing null.
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-EXTENSIONS">EXTENSIONS</a></H2><PRE>
+ X/Open Curses documents the <EM>opts</EM> argument as reserved for future use,
+ saying that it must be null. This implementation uses that parameter
+ in ABI 6 for the functions which have a color pair parameter to support
+ extended color pairs:
- When <EM>wch</EM> is not a null pointer, <STRONG>getcchar</STRONG> returns <STRONG>OK</STRONG> upon successful
- completion, and <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> otherwise.
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> For functions which modify the color, e.g., <STRONG>setcchar</STRONG>, if <EM>opts</EM> is
+ set it is treated as a pointer to <STRONG>int</STRONG>, and used to set the color
+ pair instead of the <STRONG>short</STRONG> pair parameter.
- Upon successful completion, <STRONG>setcchar</STRONG> returns <STRONG>OK</STRONG>. Otherwise, it returns
- <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>.
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> For functions which retrieve the color, e.g., <STRONG>getcchar</STRONG>, if <EM>opts</EM> is
+ set it is treated as a pointer to <STRONG>int</STRONG>, and used to retrieve the
+ color pair as an <STRONG>int</STRONG> value, in addition retrieving it via the
+ standard pointer to <STRONG>short</STRONG> parameter.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
- The <STRONG>CCHARW_MAX</STRONG> symbol is specific to ncurses. X/Open Curses does not
+ The <STRONG>CCHARW_MAX</STRONG> symbol is specific to <EM>ncurses</EM>. X/Open Curses does not
provide details for the layout of the <STRONG>cchar_t</STRONG> structure. It tells what
data are stored in it:
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
- Functions: <STRONG><A HREF="curs_attr.3x.html">curs_attr(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_color.3x.html">curs_color(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>wcwidth(3)</STRONG>.
+ <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_attr.3x.html">curs_attr(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_color.3x.html">curs_color(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>wcwidth(3)</STRONG>
-ncurses 6.4 2023-09-16 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_getcchar.3x.html">curs_getcchar(3x)</A></STRONG>
+ncurses 6.4 2024-04-13 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_getcchar.3x.html">curs_getcchar(3x)</A></STRONG>
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-<li><a href="#h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></li>
<li><a href="#h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-EXTENSIONS">EXTENSIONS</a></li>
<li><a href="#h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></li>
<li><a href="#h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></li>
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