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-<H1>curs_attr 3x</H1>
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+<H1 class="no-header">curs_attr 3x</H1>
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-<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
+<H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>attroff</STRONG>, <STRONG>wattroff</STRONG>, <STRONG>attron</STRONG>, <STRONG>wattron</STRONG>, <STRONG>attrset</STRONG>, <STRONG>wattrset</STRONG>,
<STRONG>color_set</STRONG>, <STRONG>wcolor_set</STRONG>, <STRONG>standend</STRONG>, <STRONG>wstandend</STRONG>, <STRONG>standout</STRONG>,
<STRONG>wstandout</STRONG>, <STRONG>attr_get</STRONG>, <STRONG>wattr_get</STRONG>, <STRONG>attr_off</STRONG>, <STRONG>wattr_off</STRONG>,
</PRE>
-<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
+<H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG><curses.h></STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>attroff(int</STRONG> <STRONG>attrs);</STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>wattroff(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*win,</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>attrs);</STRONG>
</PRE>
-<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
+<H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
These routines manipulate the current attributes of the
named window. The current attributes of a window apply to
all characters that are written into the window with <STRONG>wadd-</STRONG>
ment is not presently used, but is reserved for the future
(leave it <STRONG>NULL</STRONG>).
- <STRONG>Attributes</STRONG>
+
+</PRE>
+<H3><a name="h3-Attributes">Attributes</a></H3><PRE>
The following video attributes, defined in <STRONG><curses.h></STRONG>, can
be passed to the routines <STRONG>attron</STRONG>, <STRONG>attroff</STRONG>, and <STRONG>attrset</STRONG>, or
OR'd with the characters passed to <STRONG>addch</STRONG>.
- <STRONG>A_NORMAL</STRONG> Normal display (no highlight)
- <STRONG>A_STANDOUT</STRONG> Best highlighting mode of the terminal.
- <STRONG>A_UNDERLINE</STRONG> Underlining
- <STRONG>A_REVERSE</STRONG> Reverse video
- <STRONG>A_BLINK</STRONG> Blinking
- <STRONG>A_DIM</STRONG> Half bright
- <STRONG>A_BOLD</STRONG> Extra bright or bold
- <STRONG>A_PROTECT</STRONG> Protected mode
- <STRONG>A_INVIS</STRONG> Invisible or blank mode
- <STRONG>A_ALTCHARSET</STRONG> Alternate character set
- <STRONG>A_CHARTEXT</STRONG> Bit-mask to extract a character
- <STRONG>COLOR_PAIR(</STRONG><EM>n</EM><STRONG>)</STRONG> Color-pair number <EM>n</EM>
+ <EM>Name</EM> <EM>Description</EM>
+ ------------------------------------------------------------
+ <STRONG>A_NORMAL</STRONG> Normal display (no highlight)
+ <STRONG>A_STANDOUT</STRONG> Best highlighting mode of the terminal.
+ <STRONG>A_UNDERLINE</STRONG> Underlining
+ <STRONG>A_REVERSE</STRONG> Reverse video
+ <STRONG>A_BLINK</STRONG> Blinking
+ <STRONG>A_DIM</STRONG> Half bright
+ <STRONG>A_BOLD</STRONG> Extra bright or bold
+ <STRONG>A_PROTECT</STRONG> Protected mode
+ <STRONG>A_INVIS</STRONG> Invisible or blank mode
+ <STRONG>A_ALTCHARSET</STRONG> Alternate character set
+ <STRONG>A_ITALIC</STRONG> Italics (non-X/Open extension)
+ <STRONG>A_CHARTEXT</STRONG> Bit-mask to extract a character
+ <STRONG>COLOR_PAIR(</STRONG><EM>n</EM><STRONG>)</STRONG> Color-pair number <EM>n</EM>
+
+ These video attributes are supported by <STRONG>attr_on</STRONG> and relat-
+ ed functions (which also support the attributes recognized
+ by <STRONG>attron</STRONG>, etc.):
+
+ <EM>Name</EM> <EM>Description</EM>
+ -----------------------------------------
+ <STRONG>WA_HORIZONTAL</STRONG> Horizontal highlight
+ <STRONG>WA_LEFT</STRONG> Left highlight
+ <STRONG>WA_LOW</STRONG> Low highlight
+ <STRONG>WA_RIGHT</STRONG> Right highlight
+ <STRONG>WA_TOP</STRONG> Top highlight
+ <STRONG>WA_VERTICAL</STRONG> Vertical highlight
+
+ For consistency
The following macro is the reverse of <STRONG>COLOR_PAIR(</STRONG><EM>n</EM><STRONG>)</STRONG>:
</PRE>
-<H2>NOTES</H2><PRE>
+<H2><a name="h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></H2><PRE>
Note that <STRONG>attroff</STRONG>, <STRONG>wattroff</STRONG>, <STRONG>attron</STRONG>, <STRONG>wattron</STRONG>, <STRONG>attrset</STRONG>,
<STRONG>wattrset</STRONG>, <STRONG>standend</STRONG> and <STRONG>standout</STRONG> may be macros.
</PRE>
-<H2>PORTABILITY</H2><PRE>
+<H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
These functions are supported in the XSI Curses standard,
Issue 4. The standard defined the dedicated type for
highlights, <STRONG>attr_t</STRONG>, which is not defined in SVr4 curses.
correctly manipulate all other highlights (specifically,
<STRONG>A_ALTCHARSET</STRONG>, <STRONG>A_PROTECT</STRONG>, and <STRONG>A_INVIS</STRONG>).
+ This implementation provides the <STRONG>A_ITALIC</STRONG> attribute for
+ terminals which have the <EM>enter</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>italics</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>mode</EM> (sitm) and <EM>ex-</EM>
+ <EM>it</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>italics</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>mode</EM> (ritm) capabilities. Italics are not men-
+ tioned in X/Open Curses. Unlike the other video at-
+ tributes, <STRONG>I_ITALIC</STRONG> is unrelated to the <EM>set</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>attributes</EM> ca-
+ pabilities. This implementation makes the assumption that
+ <EM>exit</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>attribute</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>mode</EM> may also reset italics.
+
XSI Curses added the new entry points, <STRONG>attr_get</STRONG>, <STRONG>attr_on</STRONG>,
<STRONG>attr_off</STRONG>, <STRONG>attr_set</STRONG>, <STRONG>wattr_on</STRONG>, <STRONG>wattr_off</STRONG>, <STRONG>wattr_get</STRONG>, <STRONG>wat-</STRONG>
<STRONG>tr_set</STRONG>. These are intended to work with a new series of
- highlight macros prefixed with <STRONG>WA_</STRONG>.
-
- Older versions of this library did not force an update of
- the screen when changing the attributes. Use <STRONG>touchwin</STRONG> to
+ highlight macros prefixed with <STRONG>WA_</STRONG>. The older macros have
+ direct counterparts in the newer set of names:
+
+ <EM>Name</EM> <EM>Description</EM>
+ ------------------------------------------------------------
+ <STRONG>WA_NORMAL</STRONG> Normal display (no highlight)
+ <STRONG>WA_STANDOUT</STRONG> Best highlighting mode of the terminal.
+ <STRONG>WA_UNDERLINE</STRONG> Underlining
+ <STRONG>WA_REVERSE</STRONG> Reverse video
+ <STRONG>WA_BLINK</STRONG> Blinking
+ <STRONG>WA_DIM</STRONG> Half bright
+ <STRONG>WA_BOLD</STRONG> Extra bright or bold
+ <STRONG>WA_ALTCHARSET</STRONG> Alternate character set
+
+ Older versions of this library did not force an update of
+ the screen when changing the attributes. Use <STRONG>touchwin</STRONG> to
force the screen to match the updated attributes.
- <STRONG>WA_NORMAL</STRONG> Normal display (no highlight)
- <STRONG>WA_STANDOUT</STRONG> Best highlighting mode of the terminal.
- <STRONG>WA_UNDERLINE</STRONG> Underlining
- <STRONG>WA_REVERSE</STRONG> Reverse video
- <STRONG>WA_BLINK</STRONG> Blinking
- <STRONG>WA_DIM</STRONG> Half bright
- <STRONG>WA_BOLD</STRONG> Extra bright or bold
- <STRONG>WA_ALTCHARSET</STRONG> Alternate character set
-
The XSI curses standard specifies that each pair of corre-
- sponding <STRONG>A_</STRONG> and <STRONG>WA_</STRONG>-using functions operates on the same
+ sponding <STRONG>A_</STRONG> and <STRONG>WA_</STRONG>-using functions operates on the same
current-highlight information.
The XSI standard extended conformance level adds new high-
lights <STRONG>A_HORIZONTAL</STRONG>, <STRONG>A_LEFT</STRONG>, <STRONG>A_LOW</STRONG>, <STRONG>A_RIGHT</STRONG>, <STRONG>A_TOP</STRONG>, <STRONG>A_VER-</STRONG>
- <STRONG>TICAL</STRONG> (and corresponding <STRONG>WA_</STRONG> macros for each) which this
- implementation does not yet support.
+ <STRONG>TICAL</STRONG> (and corresponding <STRONG>WA_</STRONG> macros for each). As of Au-
+ gust 2013, no known terminal provides these highlights
+ (i.e., via the <STRONG>sgr1</STRONG> capability).
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-<H2>RETURN VALUE</H2><PRE>
+<H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
All routines return the integer <STRONG>OK</STRONG> on success, or <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> on
failure.
OR_PAIRS-1. This implementation also provides <STRONG>getattrs</STRONG>
for compatibility with older versions of curses.
+ Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor move-
+ ment using <STRONG>wmove</STRONG>, and return an error if the position is
+ outside the window, or if the window pointer is null.
+
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-<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
+<H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_addch.3x.html">curs_addch(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_addstr.3x.html">curs_addstr(3x)</A></STRONG>,
- <STRONG><A HREF="curs_bkgd.3x.html">curs_bkgd(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_printw.3x.html">curs_printw(3x)</A></STRONG>
+ <STRONG><A HREF="curs_bkgd.3x.html">curs_bkgd(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_printw.3x.html">curs_printw(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_variables.3x.html">curs_variables(3x)</A></STRONG>
<STRONG><A HREF="curs_attr.3x.html">curs_attr(3x)</A></STRONG>
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+<li><a href="#h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
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+<li><a href="#h3-Attributes">Attributes</a></li>
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+<li><a href="#h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></li>
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