curs_getcchar 3x

curs_getcchar(3x)                                            curs_getcchar(3x)




NAME

       getcchar,  setcchar  - Get a wide character string and rendition from a
       cchar_t or set a cchar_t from a wide-character string


SYNOPSIS

       #include <curses.h>

       int getcchar(
               const cchar_t *wcval,
               wchar_t *wch,
               attr_t *attrs,
               short *color_pair,
               void *opts );

       int setcchar(
               cchar_t *wcval,
               const wchar_t *wch,
               const attr_t attrs,
               short color_pair,
               const void *opts );


DESCRIPTION


getcchar

       The getcchar function gets a wide-character string and rendition from a
       cchar_t  argument.   When wch is not a null pointer, the getcchar func-
       tion does the following:

       o   Extracts information from a cchar_t value wcval

       o   Stores the character attributes in the location pointed to by attrs

       o   Stores the color-pair in the location pointed to by color_pair

       o   Stores the wide-character string, characters referenced  by  wcval,
           into the array pointed to by wch.

       When wch is a null pointer, the getcchar function does the following:

       o   Obtains the number of wide characters pointed to by wcval

       o   Does not change the data referenced by attrs or color_pair


setcchar

       The  setcchar  function initializes the location pointed to by wcval by
       using:

       o   The character attributes in attrs

       o   The color pair in color_pair

       o   The wide-character string pointed to by wch.  The  string  must  be
           L'\0' terminated, contain at most one spacing character, which must
           be the first.

           Up to CCHARW_MAX-1 nonspacing characters  may  follow.   Additional
           nonspacing characters are ignored.

           The string may contain a single control character instead.  In that
           case, no nonspacing characters are allowed.


EXTENSIONS

       X/Open Curses documents the opts argument as reserved for  future  use,
       saying  that  it must be null.  This implementation uses that parameter
       in ABI 6 for the functions which have a color-pair parameter to support
       extended color pairs:

       o   For   functions  which modify the color, e.g., setcchar, if opts is
           set it is treated as a pointer to int, and used to  set  the  color
           pair instead of the short pair parameter.

       o   For  functions which retrieve the color, e.g., getcchar, if opts is
           set it is treated as a pointer to int, and  used  to  retrieve  the
           color pair as an int value, in addition retrieving it via the stan-
           dard pointer to short parameter.


NOTES

       The wcval argument may be a value generated by a call to setcchar or by
       a function that has a cchar_t output argument.  If wcval is constructed
       by any other means, the effect is unspecified.


RETURN VALUE

       When wch is a null pointer, getcchar returns the number of wide charac-
       ters referenced by wcval, including one for a trailing null.

       When  wch  is  not  a null pointer, getcchar returns OK upon successful
       completion, and ERR otherwise.

       Upon successful completion, setcchar returns OK.  Otherwise, it returns
       ERR.


SEE ALSO

       Functions: curs_attr(3x), curs_color(3x), curses(3x), wcwidth(3).



                                                             curs_getcchar(3x)