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42 <H1 class="no-header">curs_slk 3x</H1>
44 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_slk.3x.html">curs_slk(3x)</A></STRONG> <STRONG><A HREF="curs_slk.3x.html">curs_slk(3x)</A></STRONG>
49 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
50 <STRONG>slk_init</STRONG>, <STRONG>slk_set</STRONG>, <STRONG>slk_wset</STRONG>, <STRONG>slk_refresh</STRONG>, <STRONG>slk_noutrefresh</STRONG>, <STRONG>slk_label</STRONG>,
51 <STRONG>slk_clear</STRONG>, <STRONG>slk_restore</STRONG>, <STRONG>slk_touch</STRONG>, <STRONG>slk_attron</STRONG>, <STRONG>slk_attrset</STRONG>,
52 <STRONG>slk_attroff</STRONG>, <STRONG>slk_attr_on</STRONG>, <STRONG>slk_attr_set</STRONG>, <STRONG>slk_attr_off</STRONG>, <STRONG>slk_attr</STRONG>,
53 <STRONG>slk_color</STRONG>, <STRONG>extended_slk_color</STRONG> - <STRONG>curses</STRONG> soft label routines
56 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
57 <STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG><curses.h></STRONG>
59 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>slk_init(int</STRONG> <EM>fmt</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
61 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>slk_set(int</STRONG> <EM>labnum</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>label</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>fmt</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
63 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>slk_wset(int</STRONG> <EM>labnum</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>wchar_t</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>label</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>fmt</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
65 <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*slk_label(int</STRONG> <EM>labnum</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
67 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>slk_refresh(void);</STRONG>
68 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>slk_noutrefresh(void);</STRONG>
69 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>slk_clear(void);</STRONG>
70 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>slk_restore(void);</STRONG>
71 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>slk_touch(void);</STRONG>
73 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>slk_attron(const</STRONG> <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> <EM>attrs</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
74 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>slk_attroff(const</STRONG> <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> <EM>attrs</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
75 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>slk_attrset(const</STRONG> <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> <EM>attrs</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
76 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>slk_attr_on(attr_t</STRONG> <EM>attrs</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>void*</STRONG> <EM>opts</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
77 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>slk_attr_off(const</STRONG> <STRONG>attr_t</STRONG> <EM>attrs</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>void</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG> <EM>opts</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
78 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>slk_attr_set(const</STRONG> <STRONG>attr_t</STRONG> <EM>attrs</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>short</STRONG> <EM>pair</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>void*</STRONG> <EM>opts</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
80 <STRONG>attr_t</STRONG> <STRONG>slk_attr(void);</STRONG>
82 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>slk_color(short</STRONG> <EM>pair</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
84 <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>extended_slk_color(int</STRONG> <EM>pair</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
87 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
88 The slk* functions manipulate the set of soft function-key labels that
89 exist on many terminals. For those terminals that do not have soft la-
90 bels, <STRONG>curses</STRONG> takes over the bottom line of <STRONG>stdscr</STRONG>, reducing the size of
91 <STRONG>stdscr</STRONG> and the variable <STRONG>LINES</STRONG>. <STRONG>curses</STRONG> standardizes on eight labels of
92 up to eight characters each. In addition to this, the ncurses imple-
93 mentation supports a mode where it simulates 12 labels of up to five
94 characters each. This is useful for PC-like enduser devices. ncurses
95 simulates this mode by taking over up to two lines at the bottom of the
96 screen; it does not try to use any hardware support for this mode.
99 </PRE><H3><a name="h3-Initialization">Initialization</a></H3><PRE>
100 The <STRONG>slk_init</STRONG> routine must be called before <STRONG>initscr</STRONG> or <STRONG>newterm</STRONG> is
101 called. If <STRONG>initscr</STRONG> eventually uses a line from <STRONG>stdscr</STRONG> to emulate the
102 soft labels, then <EM>fmt</EM> determines how the labels are arranged on the
105 <STRONG>0</STRONG> indicates a 3-2-3 arrangement of the labels.
107 <STRONG>1</STRONG> indicates a 4-4 arrangement
109 <STRONG>2</STRONG> indicates the PC-like 4-4-4 mode.
111 <STRONG>3</STRONG> is again the PC-like 4-4-4 mode, but in addition an index line is
112 generated, helping the user to identify the key numbers easily.
115 </PRE><H3><a name="h3-Labels">Labels</a></H3><PRE>
116 The <STRONG>slk_set</STRONG> routine (and the <STRONG>slk_wset</STRONG> routine for the wide-character
117 library) has three parameters:
120 is the label number, from <STRONG>1</STRONG> to <STRONG>8</STRONG> (12 for <EM>fmt</EM> in <STRONG>slk_init</STRONG> is <STRONG>2</STRONG>
121 or <STRONG>3</STRONG>);
124 is be the string to put on the label, up to eight (five for <EM>fmt</EM>
125 in <STRONG>slk_init</STRONG> is <STRONG>2</STRONG> or <STRONG>3</STRONG>) characters in length. A null string or
126 a null pointer sets up a blank label.
128 <EM>fmt</EM> is either <STRONG>0</STRONG>, <STRONG>1</STRONG>, or <STRONG>2</STRONG>, indicating whether the label is to be
129 left-justified, centered, or right-justified, respectively,
132 The <STRONG>slk_label</STRONG> routine returns the current label for label number <EM>lab-</EM>
133 <EM>num</EM>, with leading and trailing blanks stripped.
136 </PRE><H3><a name="h3-Screen-updates">Screen updates</a></H3><PRE>
137 The <STRONG>slk_refresh</STRONG> and <STRONG>slk_noutrefresh</STRONG> routines correspond to the <STRONG>wrefresh</STRONG>
138 and <STRONG>wnoutrefresh</STRONG> routines.
140 The <STRONG>slk_clear</STRONG> routine clears the soft labels from the screen.
142 The <STRONG>slk_restore</STRONG> routine restores the soft labels to the screen after a
143 <STRONG>slk_clear</STRONG> has been performed.
145 The <STRONG>slk_touch</STRONG> routine forces all the soft labels to be output the next
146 time a <STRONG>slk_noutrefresh</STRONG> is performed.
149 </PRE><H3><a name="h3-Video-attributes">Video attributes</a></H3><PRE>
150 The <STRONG>slk_attron</STRONG>, <STRONG>slk_attrset</STRONG>, <STRONG>slk_attroff</STRONG> and <STRONG>slk_attr</STRONG> routines corre-
151 spond to <STRONG>attron</STRONG>, <STRONG>attrset</STRONG>, <STRONG>attroff</STRONG> and <STRONG>attr_get</STRONG>, respectively. They
152 have an effect only if soft labels are simulated on the bottom line of
153 the screen. The default highlight for soft keys is A_STANDOUT (as in
154 System V curses, which does not document this fact).
157 </PRE><H3><a name="h3-Colors">Colors</a></H3><PRE>
158 The <STRONG>slk_color</STRONG> routine corresponds to <STRONG>color_set</STRONG>. It has an effect only
159 if soft labels are simulated on the bottom line of the screen.
161 Because <STRONG>slk_color</STRONG> accepts only <STRONG>short</STRONG> (signed 16-bit integer) values,
162 this implementation provides <STRONG>extended_slk_color</STRONG> which accepts an inte-
163 ger value, e.g., 32-bits.
166 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
167 These routines return <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon failure and <STRONG>OK</STRONG> (SVr4 specifies only "an
168 integer value other than <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>") upon successful completion.
170 X/Open defines no error conditions. In this implementation
172 <STRONG>slk_attr</STRONG>
173 returns the attribute used for the soft keys.
175 <STRONG>slk_attroff</STRONG>, <STRONG>slk_attron</STRONG>, <STRONG>slk_clear</STRONG>, <STRONG>slk_noutrefresh</STRONG>, <STRONG>slk_refresh</STRONG>,
176 <STRONG>slk_touch</STRONG>
177 return an error if the terminal or the softkeys were not ini-
180 <STRONG>slk_attrset</STRONG>
181 returns an error if the terminal or the softkeys were not ini-
184 <STRONG>slk_attr_set</STRONG>
185 returns an error if the terminal or the softkeys were not ini-
186 tialized, or the color pair is outside the range 0..COL-
189 <STRONG>slk_color</STRONG>
190 returns an error if the terminal or the softkeys were not ini-
191 tialized, or the color pair is outside the range 0..COL-
194 <STRONG>slk_init</STRONG>
195 returns an error if the format parameter is outside the range
198 <STRONG>slk_label</STRONG>
199 returns <STRONG>NULL</STRONG> on error.
201 <STRONG>slk_set</STRONG>
202 returns an error if the terminal or the softkeys were not ini-
203 tialized, or the <EM>labnum</EM> parameter is outside the range of label
204 counts, or if the format parameter is outside the range 0..2,
205 or if memory for the labels cannot be allocated.
208 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></H2><PRE>
209 SVr3 introduced these functions:
219 SVr4 added these functions:
225 X/Open Curses added these:
233 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-EXTENSIONS">EXTENSIONS</a></H2><PRE>
234 X/Open Curses documents the <EM>opts</EM> argument as reserved for future use,
235 saying that it must be null. This implementation uses that parameter
236 in ABI 6 for the functions which have a color-pair parameter to support
237 extended color pairs.
239 For functions which modify the color, e.g., <STRONG>slk_attr_set</STRONG>, if <EM>opts</EM> is
240 set it is treated as a pointer to <STRONG>int</STRONG>, and used to set the color
241 pair instead of the <STRONG>short</STRONG> pair parameter.
244 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></H2><PRE>
245 Most applications would use <STRONG>slk_noutrefresh</STRONG> because a <STRONG>wrefresh</STRONG> is like-
249 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
250 The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4, described the soft-key functions,
251 with some differences from SVr4 curses:
253 <STRONG>o</STRONG> It added functions like the SVr4 attribute-manipulation functions
254 <STRONG>slk_attron</STRONG>, <STRONG>slk_attroff</STRONG>, <STRONG>slk_attrset</STRONG>, but which use <STRONG>attr_t</STRONG> parame-
255 ters (rather than <STRONG>chtype</STRONG>), along with a reserved <EM>opts</EM> parameter.
257 Two of these new functions (unlike the SVr4 functions) have no pro-
258 vision for color: <STRONG>slk_attr_on</STRONG> and <STRONG>slk_attr_off</STRONG>.
260 The third function (<STRONG>slk_attr_set</STRONG>) has a color-pair parameter.
262 <STRONG>o</STRONG> It added <STRONG>const</STRONG> qualifiers to parameters (unnecessarily), and
264 <STRONG>o</STRONG> It added <STRONG>slk_color</STRONG>.
266 The format codes <STRONG>2</STRONG> and <STRONG>3</STRONG> for <STRONG>slk_init</STRONG> and the function <STRONG>slk_attr</STRONG> are
269 X/Open Curses does not specify a limit for the number of colors and
270 color pairs which a terminal can support. However, in its use of <STRONG>short</STRONG>
271 for the parameters, it carries over SVr4's implementation detail for
272 the compiled terminfo database, which uses signed 16-bit numbers. This
273 implementation provides extended versions of those functions which use
274 <STRONG>short</STRONG> parameters, allowing applications to use larger color- and pair-
278 </PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
279 <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_initscr.3x.html">curs_initscr(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_refresh.3x.html">curs_refresh(3x)</A></STRONG>,
280 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_variables.3x.html">curs_variables(3x)</A></STRONG>.
284 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_slk.3x.html">curs_slk(3x)</A></STRONG>
288 <li><a href="#h2-NAME">NAME</a></li>
289 <li><a href="#h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
290 <li><a href="#h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a>
292 <li><a href="#h3-Initialization">Initialization</a></li>
293 <li><a href="#h3-Labels">Labels</a></li>
294 <li><a href="#h3-Screen-updates">Screen updates</a></li>
295 <li><a href="#h3-Video-attributes">Video attributes</a></li>
296 <li><a href="#h3-Colors">Colors</a></li>
299 <li><a href="#h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></li>
300 <li><a href="#h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></li>
301 <li><a href="#h2-EXTENSIONS">EXTENSIONS</a></li>
302 <li><a href="#h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></li>
303 <li><a href="#h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></li>
304 <li><a href="#h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></li>