X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=inline;f=doc%2Fhtml%2Fman%2Fcurs_inch.3x.html;h=ab5035e720d3468deb7fd14bdf08ecd722a1875b;hb=acb4184f8f69fddd052a3daa8c8675f4bf8ce369;hp=d601804e283e3c4236f9dcf3e5627fd007c38586;hpb=027ae42953e3186daed8f3882da73de48291b606;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/doc/html/man/curs_inch.3x.html b/doc/html/man/curs_inch.3x.html index d601804e..ab5035e7 100644 --- a/doc/html/man/curs_inch.3x.html +++ b/doc/html/man/curs_inch.3x.html @@ -1,8 +1,7 @@ - +
+ +- -curs_inch(3x) curs_inch(3x) +curs_inch(3x) curs_inch(3x) --
- inch, winch, mvinch, mvwinch - get a character and - attributes from a curses window +
+ inch, winch, mvinch, mvwinch - get a character and attributes from a + curses window --
+
#include <curses.h> chtype inch(void); @@ -62,50 +60,93 @@ chtype mvwinch(WINDOW *win, int y, int x); --
- These routines return the character, of type chtype, at - the current position in the named window. If any - attributes are set for that position, their values are - OR'ed into the value returned. Constants defined in - <curses.h> can be used with the & (logical AND) operator - to extract the character or attributes alone. - - Attributes - The following bit-masks may be AND-ed with characters - returned by winch. +
+ These routines return the character, of type chtype, at the current + position in the named window. If any attributes are set for that posi- + tion, their values are OR'ed into the value returned. Constants + defined in <curses.h> can be used with the & (logical AND) operator to + extract the character or attributes alone. + + +
+ The following bit-masks may be AND-ed with characters returned by + winch. A_CHARTEXT Bit-mask to extract character A_ATTRIBUTES Bit-mask to extract attributes A_COLOR Bit-mask to extract color-pair field information --
+
+ Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor movement using + wmove, and return an error if the position is outside the window, or if + the window pointer is null. + + The winch function does not return an error if the window contains + characters larger than 8-bits (255). Only the low-order 8 bits of the + character are used by winch. + + +
Note that all of these routines may be macros. --
- These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard, - Issue 4. +
+ These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard, Issue 4. + Very old systems (before standardization) provide a different function + with the same name: --
- curses(3x). + o The winch function was part of the original BSD curses library, + which stored a 7-bit character combined with the standout + attribute. + + In BSD curses, winch returned only the character (as an integer) + with the standout attribute removed. + + o System V curses added support for several video attributes which + could be combined with characters in the window. + + Reflecting this improvement, the function was altered to return the + character combined with all video attributes in a chtype value. + + X/Open Curses does not specify the size and layout of attributes, color + and character values in chtype; it is implementation-dependent. This + implementation uses 8 bits for character values. An application using + more bits, e.g., a Unicode value, should use the wide-character equiva- + lents to these functions. + + +
+ curses(3x) + gives an overview of the WINDOW and chtype data types. + + curs_attr(3x) + goes into more detail, pointing out portability problems and con- + straints on the use of chtype for returning window information. - Comparable functions in the wide-character (ncursesw) - library are described in curs_in_wch(3x). + curs_in_wch(3x) + describes comparable functions for the wide-character (ncursesw) + library. - curs_inch(3x) + curs_inch(3x)-