curs_attr 3x



curs_attr(3x)                                             curs_attr(3x)




NAME

       attroff, wattroff, attron, wattron, attrset, wattrset,
       color_set, wcolor_set, standend, wstandend, standout,
       wstandout, attr_get, wattr_get, attr_off, wattr_off,
       attr_on, wattr_on, attr_set, wattr_set, chgat, wchgat,
       mvchgat, mvwchgat, PAIR_NUMBER - curses character and
       window attribute control routines


SYNOPSIS

       #include <curses.h>
       int attroff(int attrs);
       int wattroff(WINDOW *win, int attrs);
       int attron(int attrs);
       int wattron(WINDOW *win, int attrs);
       int attrset(int attrs);
       int wattrset(WINDOW *win, int attrs);
       int color_set(short color_pair_number, void* opts);
       int wcolor_set(WINDOW *win, short color_pair_number,
             void* opts);
       int standend(void);
       int wstandend(WINDOW *win);
       int standout(void);
       int wstandout(WINDOW *win);
       int attr_get(attr_t *attrs, short *pair, void *opts);
       int wattr_get(WINDOW *win, attr_t *attrs, short *pair,
              void *opts);
       int attr_off(attr_t attrs, void *opts);
       int wattr_off(WINDOW *win, attr_t attrs, void *opts);
       int attr_on(attr_t attrs, void *opts);
       int wattr_on(WINDOW *win, attr_t attrs, void *opts);
       int attr_set(attr_t attrs, short pair, void *opts);
       int wattr_set(WINDOW *win, attr_t attrs, short pair,  void
       *opts);
       int chgat(int n, attr_t attr, short color,
             const void *opts)
       int wchgat(WINDOW *win, int n, attr_t attr,
             short color, const void *opts)
       int mvchgat(int y, int x, int n, attr_t attr,
             short color, const void *opts)
       int mvwchgat(WINDOW *win, int y, int x, int n,
             attr_t attr, short color, const void *opts)


DESCRIPTION

       These  routines  manipulate  the current attributes of the
       named window.  The current attributes of a window apply to
       all characters that are written into the window with wadd-
       ch, waddstr and wprintw.  Attributes are a property of the
       character,   and  move  with  the  character  through  any
       scrolling and insert/delete line/character operations.  To
       the  extent  possible,  they  are displayed as appropriate
       modifications to the graphic rendition of  characters  put
       on the screen.

       The  routine  attrset  sets  the current attributes of the
       given window to attrs.  The routine attroff turns off  the
       named  attributes  without turning any other attributes on
       or off.  The routine attron turns on the named  attributes
       without affecting any others.  The routine standout is the
       same as attron(A_STANDOUT).  The routine standend  is  the
       same as attrset(A_NORMAL) or attrset(0), that is, it turns
       off all attributes.

       The attrset and related routines do  not  affect  the  at-
       tributes  used  when  erasing portions of the window.  See
       curs_bkgd(3x) for functions which  modify  the  attributes
       used for erasing and clearing.

       The  routine color_set sets the current color of the given
       window to the foreground/background combination  described
       by  the  color_pair_number. The parameter opts is reserved
       for future use, applications must supply a null pointer.

       The routine wattr_get returns the  current  attribute  and
       color pair for the given window; attr_get returns the cur-
       rent attribute and color pair for stdscr.   The  remaining
       attr_*  functions  operate  exactly like the corresponding
       attr* functions, except that they take arguments  of  type
       attr_t rather than int.

       The routine chgat changes the attributes of a given number
       of characters starting at the current cursor  location  of
       stdscr.   It  does not update the cursor and does not per-
       form wrapping.  A character count of -1  or  greater  than
       the  remaining window width means to change attributes all
       the way to the end of the current line.  The wchgat  func-
       tion generalizes this to any window; the mvwchgat function
       does a cursor move before acting.  In these functions, the
       color  argument is a color-pair index (as in the first ar-
       gument of init_pair, see curs_color(3x)).  The opts  argu-
       ment is not presently used, but is reserved for the future
       (leave it NULL).

   Attributes
       The following video attributes, defined in <curses.h>, can
       be passed to the routines attron, attroff, and attrset, or
       OR'd with the characters passed to addch.


        A_NORMAL        Normal display (no highlight)
        A_STANDOUT      Best highlighting mode of the terminal.
        A_UNDERLINE     Underlining
        A_REVERSE       Reverse video
        A_BLINK         Blinking
        A_DIM           Half bright
        A_BOLD          Extra bright or bold
        A_PROTECT       Protected mode
        A_INVIS         Invisible or blank mode
        A_ALTCHARSET    Alternate character set
        A_CHARTEXT      Bit-mask to extract a character
        COLOR_PAIR(n)   Color-pair number n

       The following macro is the reverse of COLOR_PAIR(n):

       PAIR_NUMBER(attrs) Returns the pair number associated
                          with the COLOR_PAIR(n) attribute.

       The return values of many of these routines are not  mean-
       ingful (they are implemented as macro-expanded assignments
       and simply return their argument).  The SVr4  manual  page
       claims (falsely) that these routines always return 1.


NOTES

       Note  that  attroff,  wattroff,  attron, wattron, attrset,
       wattrset, standend and standout may be macros.

       COLOR_PAIR values can only be OR'd with attributes if  the
       pair  number  is  less  than 256.  The alternate functions
       such as color_set can pass a color  pair  value  directly.
       However,  ncurses  ABI 4 and 5 simply OR this value within
       the alternate functions.  You must use ncurses  ABI  6  to
       support more than 256 color pairs.


PORTABILITY

       These  functions are supported in the XSI Curses standard,
       Issue 4.  The standard  defined  the  dedicated  type  for
       highlights,  attr_t,  which is not defined in SVr4 curses.
       The functions taking attr_t arguments  are  not  supported
       under SVr4.

       The XSI Curses standard states that whether the tradition-
       al functions  attron/attroff/attrset  can  manipulate  at-
       tributes  other  than  A_BLINK,  A_BOLD, A_DIM, A_REVERSE,
       A_STANDOUT, or A_UNDERLINE is "unspecified".   Under  this
       implementation  as  well  as  SVr4 curses, these functions
       correctly manipulate all other  highlights  (specifically,
       A_ALTCHARSET, A_PROTECT, and A_INVIS).

       XSI  Curses added the new entry points, attr_get, attr_on,
       attr_off, attr_set, wattr_on, wattr_off,  wattr_get,  wat-
       tr_set.   These  are intended to work with a new series of
       highlight macros prefixed with WA_.

       Older versions of this library did not force an update  of
       the  screen when changing the attributes.  Use touchwin to
       force the screen to match the updated attributes.


        WA_NORMAL       Normal display (no highlight)
        WA_STANDOUT     Best highlighting mode of the terminal.
        WA_UNDERLINE    Underlining
        WA_REVERSE      Reverse video
        WA_BLINK        Blinking
        WA_DIM          Half bright
        WA_BOLD         Extra bright or bold
        WA_ALTCHARSET   Alternate character set

       The XSI curses standard specifies that each pair of corre-
       sponding  A_  and WA_-using functions operates on the same
       current-highlight information.

       The XSI standard extended conformance level adds new high-
       lights A_HORIZONTAL, A_LEFT, A_LOW, A_RIGHT, A_TOP, A_VER-
       TICAL (and corresponding WA_ macros for each)  which  this
       implementation does not yet support.


RETURN VALUE

       All  routines  return the integer OK on success, or ERR on
       failure.

       X/Open does not define any error conditions.

       This implementation returns an error if the window pointer
       is  null.  The wcolor_set function returns an error if the
       color  pair  parameter  is  outside  the   range   0..COL-
       OR_PAIRS-1.


SEE ALSO

       curses(3x),        curs_addch(3x),        curs_addstr(3x),
       curs_bkgd(3x), curs_printw(3x)



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