ncurses 6.0 - patch 20160514

[ncurses.git] / man / curs_getcchar.3x

diff --git a/man/curs_getcchar.3x b/man/curs_getcchar.3x
index b811a37db8f724f8ecca7b6b66e5039eba0419db..4c5b2291187373df3bed69229e3a1883b3ba4303 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_getcchar.3x
+++ b/man/curs_getcchar.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 2001-2003,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 2001-2012,2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *
@@ -26,8 +26,11 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_getcchar.3x,v 1.10 2006/12/24 16:00:02 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_getcchar.3x,v 1.17 2015/07/21 09:30:38 tom Exp $
 .TH curs_getcchar 3X ""
+.de bP
+.IP \(bu 4
+..
 .SH NAME
 \fBgetcchar\fP,
 \fBsetcchar\fP \- Get a wide character string and rendition from a \fBcchar_t\fP or set a \fBcchar_t\fP from a wide-character string
@@ -58,22 +61,19 @@
 .br
 .B "        void *\fIopts\fP );"
 .SH DESCRIPTION
+.SS getcchar
 .PP
 The \fBgetcchar\fP function gets a wide-character string
 and rendition from a \fBcchar_t\fP argument.
 When \fIwch\fP is not a null pointer,
 the \fBgetcchar\fP function does the following:
-.TP 5
--
+.bP
 Extracts information from a \fBcchar_t\fP value \fIwcval\fP
-.TP 5
--
+.bP
 Stores the character attributes in the location pointed to by \fIattrs\fP
-.TP 5
--
+.bP
 Stores the color-pair in the location pointed to by \fIcolor_pair\fP
-.TP 5
--
+.bP
 Stores the wide-character string,
 characters referenced by \fIwcval\fP, into the array pointed to by \fIwch\fP.
 .PP
@@ -82,33 +82,34 @@ When
 is a null pointer, the
 \fBgetcchar\fP
 function does the following:
-.TP 5
--
+.bP
 Obtains the number of wide characters pointed to by \fIwcval\fP
-.TP 5
--
+.bP
 Does not change the data referenced by
 \fIattrs\fP
 or
 \fIcolor_pair\fP
+.SS setcchar
 .PP
 The \fBsetcchar\fP function initializes the location pointed to by \fIwcval\fP
 by using:
-.TP 5
--
+.bP
 The character attributes in
 \fIattrs\fP
-.TP 5
--
+.bP
 The color pair in
 \fIcolor_pair\fP
-.TP 5
--
+.bP
 The wide-character string pointed to by \fIwch\fP.
 The string must be L'\\0' terminated,
-contain at most one character with strictly positive width,
-which must be the first,
-and contain no characters of negative width.
+contain at most one spacing character,
+which must be the first.
+.IP
+Up to \fBCCHARW_MAX\fP\-1 nonspacing characters may follow.
+Additional nonspacing characters are ignored.
+.IP
+The string may contain a single control character instead.
+In that case, no nonspacing characters are allowed.
 .SH NOTES
 .PP
 The \fIopts\fP argument is reserved for future use.
@@ -117,11 +118,12 @@ Currently, an application must provide a null pointer as \fIopts\fP.
 The \fIwcval\fP argument may be a value generated by a call to
 \fBsetcchar\fP or by a function that has a \fBcchar_t\fP output argument.
 If \fIwcval\fP is constructed by any other means, the effect is unspecified.
-.SH RETURN VALUES
+.SH RETURN VALUE
 .PP
 When \fIwch\fP is a null pointer,
 \fBgetcchar\fP returns the number of wide characters referenced by
-\fIwcval\fP.
+\fIwcval\fP,
+including one for a trailing null.
 .PP
 When \fIwch\fP is not a null pointer,
 \fBgetcchar\fP returns \fBOK\fP upon successful completion,
@@ -136,9 +138,3 @@ Functions:
 \fBcurs_color\fR(3X),
 \fBcurses\fR(3X),
 \fBwcwidth\fR(3).
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