-</PRE>
-<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
- The following routines give low-level access to various
- <STRONG>curses</STRONG> capabilities. Theses routines typically are used
- inside library routines.
-
- The <STRONG>def_prog_mode</STRONG> and <STRONG>def_shell_mode</STRONG> routines save the
- current terminal modes as the "program" (in <STRONG>curses</STRONG>) or
- "shell" (not in <STRONG>curses</STRONG>) state for use by the
- <STRONG>reset_prog_mode</STRONG> and <STRONG>reset_shell_mode</STRONG> routines. This is
- done automatically by <STRONG>initscr</STRONG>. There is one such save
- area for each screen context allocated by <STRONG>newterm()</STRONG>.
-
- The <STRONG>reset_prog_mode</STRONG> and <STRONG>reset_shell_mode</STRONG> routines restore
- the terminal to "program" (in <STRONG>curses</STRONG>) or "shell" (out of
- <STRONG>curses</STRONG>) state. These are done automatically by <STRONG>endwin</STRONG>
- and, after an <STRONG>endwin</STRONG>, by <STRONG>doupdate</STRONG>, so they normally are
- not called.
-
- The <STRONG>resetty</STRONG> and <STRONG>savetty</STRONG> routines save and restore the
- state of the terminal modes. <STRONG>savetty</STRONG> saves the current
- state in a buffer and <STRONG>resetty</STRONG> restores the state to what
- it was at the last call to <STRONG>savetty</STRONG>.
-
- The <STRONG>getsyx</STRONG> routine returns the current coordinates of the
- virtual screen cursor in <EM>y</EM> and <EM>x</EM>. If <STRONG>leaveok</STRONG> is currently
- <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG>, then <STRONG>-1</STRONG>,<STRONG>-1</STRONG> is returned. If lines have been removed
- from the top of the screen, using <STRONG>ripoffline</STRONG>, <EM>y</EM> and <EM>x</EM>
- include these lines; therefore, <EM>y</EM> and <EM>x</EM> should be used
- only as arguments for <STRONG>setsyx</STRONG>.
-
- The <STRONG>setsyx</STRONG> routine sets the virtual screen cursor to <EM>y</EM>, <EM>x</EM>.
- If <EM>y</EM> and <EM>x</EM> are both <STRONG>-1</STRONG>, then <STRONG>leaveok</STRONG> is set. The two rou-
- tines <STRONG>getsyx</STRONG> and <STRONG>setsyx</STRONG> are designed to be used by a
- library routine, which manipulates <STRONG>curses</STRONG> windows but does
- not want to change the current position of the program's
- cursor. The library routine would call <STRONG>getsyx</STRONG> at the
- beginning, do its manipulation of its own windows, do a
- <STRONG>wnoutrefresh</STRONG> on its windows, call <STRONG>setsyx</STRONG>, and then call
- <STRONG>doupdate</STRONG>.
-
- The <STRONG>ripoffline</STRONG> routine provides access to the same facil-
- ity that <STRONG>slk_init</STRONG> [see <STRONG><A HREF="curs_slk.3x.html">curs_slk(3x)</A></STRONG>] uses to reduce the
- size of the screen. <STRONG>ripoffline</STRONG> must be called before
- <STRONG>initscr</STRONG> or <STRONG>newterm</STRONG> is called. If <EM>line</EM> is positive, a line
- is removed from the top of <STRONG>stdscr</STRONG>; if <EM>line</EM> is negative, a
- line is removed from the bottom. When this is done inside
- <STRONG>initscr</STRONG>, the routine <STRONG>init</STRONG> (supplied by the user) is called
- with two arguments: a window pointer to the one-line win-
- dow that has been allocated and an integer with the number
- of columns in the window. Inside this initialization rou-
- tine, the integer variables <STRONG>LINES</STRONG> and <STRONG>COLS</STRONG> (defined in
- <STRONG><curses.h></STRONG>) are not guaranteed to be accurate and <STRONG>wrefresh</STRONG>
- or <STRONG>doupdate</STRONG> must not be called. It is allowable to call
- <STRONG>wnoutrefresh</STRONG> during the initialization routine.
-
- <STRONG>ripoffline</STRONG> can be called up to five times before calling
- <STRONG>initscr</STRONG> or <STRONG>newterm</STRONG>.
-
- The <STRONG>curs_set</STRONG> routine sets the cursor state is set to
- invisible, normal, or very visible for <STRONG>visibility</STRONG> equal to
- <STRONG>0</STRONG>, <STRONG>1</STRONG>, or <STRONG>2</STRONG> respectively. If the terminal supports the
- <EM>visibility</EM> requested, the previous <EM>cursor</EM> state is
- returned; otherwise, <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> is returned.
-
- The <STRONG>napms</STRONG> routine is used to sleep for <EM>ms</EM> milliseconds.
-
-
-</PRE>
-<H2>RETURN VALUE</H2><PRE>
- Except for <STRONG>curs_set</STRONG>, these routines always return <STRONG>OK</STRONG>.
- <STRONG>curs_set</STRONG> returns the previous cursor state, or <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> if the
- requested <EM>visibility</EM> is not supported.
-
-
-</PRE>
-<H2>NOTES</H2><PRE>
- Note that <STRONG>getsyx</STRONG> is a macro, so <STRONG>&</STRONG> is not necessary before
- the variables <EM>y</EM> and <EM>x</EM>.
-
- Older SVr4 man pages warn that the return value of
- <STRONG>curs_set</STRONG> "is currently incorrect". This implementation
- gets it right, but it may be unwise to count on the cor-
- rectness of the return value anywhere else.
-
- Both ncurses and SVr4 will call <STRONG>curs_set</STRONG> in <STRONG>endwin</STRONG> if
- <STRONG>curs_set</STRONG> has been called to make the cursor other than
- normal, i.e., either invisible or very visible. There is
- no way for ncurses to determine the initial cursor state
- to restore that.
-
-
-</PRE>
-<H2>PORTABILITY</H2><PRE>
- The functions <STRONG>setsyx</STRONG> and <STRONG>getsyx</STRONG> are not described in the
- XSI Curses standard, Issue 4. All other functions are as
- described in XSI Curses.
-
- The SVr4 documentation describes <STRONG>setsyx</STRONG> and <STRONG>getsyx</STRONG> as hav-
- ing return type int. This is misleading, as they are
- macros with no documented semantics for the return value.
-
-
-</PRE>
-<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
- <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_initscr.3x.html">curs_initscr(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_outopts.3x.html">curs_outopts(3x)</A></STRONG>,
- <STRONG><A HREF="curs_refresh.3x.html">curs_refresh(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_scr_dump.3x.html">curs_scr_dump(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_slk.3x.html">curs_slk(3x)</A></STRONG>
-