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ncurses - CRT screen handling and optimization package
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#include <curses.h>
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The ncurses library routines give the user a terminal-
independent method of updating character screens with rea-
sonable optimization. This implementation is "new curses"
(ncurses) and is the approved replacement for 4.4BSD clas-
sic curses, which has been discontinued. This describes
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The ncurses library emulates the curses library of System
V Release 4 UNIX, and XPG4 (X/Open Portability Guide)
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access to low-level terminal-manipulation routines.
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The library uses the locale which the calling program has
initialized. That is normally done with setlocale:
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for doing this. [See terminfo(5) for further details.]
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The ncurses library permits manipulation of data struc-
tures, called windows, which can be thought of as two-
dimensional arrays of characters representing all or part
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<curses.h>, such as A_REVERSE, ACS_HLINE, and KEY_LEFT.
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If the environment variables LINES and COLUMNS are set, or
if the program is executing in a window environment, line
and column information in the environment will override
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curscr can be used in only a few routines.
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Many curses routines have two or more versions. The rou-
tines prefixed with w require a window argument. The rou-
tines prefixed with p require a pad argument. Those with-
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becomes wadd_wch.
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The following table lists each curses routine and the name
of the manual page on which it is described. Routines
flagged with `*' are ncurses-specific, not described by
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wvline_set curs_border_set(3x)
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Routines that return an integer return ERR upon failure
and an integer value other than ERR upon successful com-
pletion, unless otherwise noted in the routine descrip-
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Routines that return pointers return NULL on error.
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The following environment symbols are useful for customiz-
ing the runtime behavior of the ncurses library. The most
important ones have been already discussed in detail.
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it does not happen to be a single character.
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The debugging library checks this environment variable
when the application has redirected output to a file. The
variable's numeric value is used for the baudrate. If no
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costs that depend on baudrate.
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Specify the width of the screen in characters. Applica-
tions running in a windowing environment usually are able
to obtain the width of the window in which they are exe-
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system calls or the terminal database.
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Specifies the total time, in milliseconds, for which
ncurses will await a character sequence, e.g., a function
key. The default value, 1000 milliseconds, is enough for
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lems when compiling an application.
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Tells ncurses where your home directory is. That is where
it may read and write auxiliary terminal descriptions:
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$HOME/.terminfo
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Like COLUMNS, specify the height of the screen in charac-
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This applies only to the OS/2 EMX port. It specifies the
order of buttons on the mouse. OS/2 numbers a 3-button
mouse inconsistently from other platforms:
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or 321. If it is not specified, ncurses uses 132.
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Override the compiled-in assumption that the terminal's
default colors are white-on-black (see default_col-
ors(3x)). You may set the foreground and background color
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value is allowed.
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This applies only to the MinGW port of ncurses.
The Console2 program's handling of the Microsoft Console
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same effect.
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This applies only to ncurses configured to use the GPM
interface.
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attempt to open GPM if TERM contains "linux".
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Ncurses may use tabs as part of the cursor movement opti-
mization. In some cases, your terminal driver may not
handle these properly. Set this environment variable to
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environment variable.
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Most of the terminal descriptions in the terminfo database
are written for real "hardware" terminals. Many people
use terminal emulators which run in a windowing environ-
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part of special control sequences such as flash.
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This setting is obsolete. Before changes
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level curses calls do not.
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During initialization, the ncurses library checks for spe-
cial cases where VT100 line-drawing (and the corresponding
alternate character set capabilities) described in the
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interface.
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During initialization, the ncurses debugging library
checks the NCURSES_TRACE environment variable. If it is
defined, to a numeric value, ncurses calls the trace func-
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See curs_trace(3x) for more information.
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Denotes your terminal type. Each terminal type is dis-
tinct, though many are similar.
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match that setting.
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If the ncurses library has been configured with termcap
support, ncurses will check for a terminal's description
in termcap form if it is not available in the terminfo
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mation, e.g., /etc/termcap.
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Overrides the directory in which ncurses searches for your
terminal description. This is the simplest, but not the
only way to change the list of directories. The complete
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MINFO variable)
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Specifies a list of directories to search for terminal
descriptions. The list is separated by colons (i.e., ":")
on Unix, semicolons on OS/2 EMX.
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of a termcap file.
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If TERMCAP does not hold a file name then ncurses checks
the TERMPATH environment variable. This is a list of
filenames separated by spaces or colons (i.e., ":") on
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$TERMINFO, $TERMINFO_DIRS, $TERMPATH, as well as $HOME.
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Several different configurations are possible, depending
on the configure script options used when building
ncurses. There are a few main options whose effects are
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ing it is always in the debug library.
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/usr/share/tabset
directory containing initialization files for the
terminal capability database /usr/share/terminfo ter-
minal capability database
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terminfo(5) and related pages whose names begin "curs_"
for detailed routine descriptions.
curs_variables(3x)
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The ncurses library can be compiled with an option
(-DUSE_GETCAP) that falls back to the old-style /etc/term-
cap file if the terminal setup code cannot find a terminfo
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device. See the curs_print(3x) manual page for details.
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The ncurses library is intended to be BASE-level confor-
mant with XSI Curses. The EXTENDED XSI Curses functional-
ity (including color support) is supported.
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package's portability correspondingly.
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The header file <curses.h> automatically includes the
header files <stdio.h> and <unctrl.h>.
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ture of AT&T System V Release 3 curses.
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Zeyd M. Ben-Halim, Eric S. Raymond, Thomas E. Dickey.
Based on pcurses by Pavel Curtis.