- The slk* functions manipulate the set of soft function-key
- labels that exist on many terminals. For those terminals
- that do not have soft labels, curses takes over the bottom
- line of stdscr, reducing the size of stdscr and the vari-
- able LINES. curses standardizes on eight labels of up to
- eight characters each. In addition to this, the ncurses
- implementation supports a mode where it simulates 12 la-
- bels of up to five characters each. This is useful for
- PC-like enduser devices. ncurses simulates this mode by
- taking over up to two lines at the bottom of the screen;
- it does not try to use any hardware support for this mode.
+ The slk* functions manipulate the set of soft function-key labels that
+ exist on many terminals. For those terminals that do not have soft la-
+ bels, curses takes over the bottom line of stdscr, reducing the size of
+ stdscr and the variable LINES. curses standardizes on eight labels of
+ up to eight characters each. In addition to this, the ncurses imple-
+ mentation supports a mode where it simulates 12 labels of up to five
+ characters each. This is useful for PC-like enduser devices. ncurses
+ simulates this mode by taking over up to two lines at the bottom of the
+ screen; it does not try to use any hardware support for this mode.
- The slk_init routine must be called before initscr or
- newterm is called. If initscr eventually uses a line from
- stdscr to emulate the soft labels, then fmt determines how
- the labels are arranged on the screen:
+ The slk_init routine must be called before initscr or newterm is
+ called. If initscr eventually uses a line from stdscr to emulate the
+ soft labels, then fmt determines how the labels are arranged on the
+ screen:
0 indicates a 3-2-3 arrangement of the labels.
@@ -110,171 +106,155 @@
2 indicates the PC-like 4-4-4 mode.
- 3 is again the PC-like 4-4-4 mode, but in addition an
- index line is generated, helping the user to identi-
- fy the key numbers easily.
+ 3 is again the PC-like 4-4-4 mode, but in addition an index line is
+ generated, helping the user to identify the key numbers easily.
- The slk_set routine (and the slk_wset routine for the
- wide-character library) has three parameters:
+ The slk_set routine (and the slk_wset routine for the wide-character
+ library) has three parameters:
labnum
- is the label number, from 1 to 8 (12 for fmt in
- slk_init is 2 or 3);
+ is the label number, from 1 to 8 (12 for fmt in slk_init is 2
+ or 3);
label
- is be the string to put on the label, up to eight
- (five for fmt in slk_init is 2 or 3) characters in
- length. A null string or a null pointer sets up a
- blank label.
+ is be the string to put on the label, up to eight (five for fmt
+ in slk_init is 2 or 3) characters in length. A null string or
+ a null pointer sets up a blank label.
- fmt is either 0, 1, or 2, indicating whether the label
- is to be left-justified, centered, or right-justi-
- fied, respectively, within the label.
+ fmt is either 0, 1, or 2, indicating whether the label is to be
+ left-justified, centered, or right-justified, respectively,
+ within the label.
- The slk_label routine returns the current label for label
- number labnum, with leading and trailing blanks stripped.
+ The slk_label routine returns the current label for label number lab-
+ num, with leading and trailing blanks stripped.
- The slk_refresh and slk_noutrefresh routines correspond to
- the wrefresh and wnoutrefresh routines.
+ The slk_refresh and slk_noutrefresh routines correspond to the wrefresh
+ and wnoutrefresh routines.
- The slk_clear routine clears the soft labels from the
- screen.
+ The slk_clear routine clears the soft labels from the screen.
- The slk_restore routine restores the soft labels to the
- screen after a slk_clear has been performed.
+ The slk_restore routine restores the soft labels to the screen after a
+ slk_clear has been performed.
- The slk_touch routine forces all the soft labels to be
- output the next time a slk_noutrefresh is performed.
+ The slk_touch routine forces all the soft labels to be output the next
+ time a slk_noutrefresh is performed.
- The slk_attron, slk_attrset, slk_attroff and slk_attr rou-
- tines correspond to attron, attrset, attroff and attr_get.
- They have an effect only if soft labels are simulated on
- the bottom line of the screen. The default highlight for
- soft keys is A_STANDOUT (as in System V curses, which does
- not document this fact).
+ The slk_attron, slk_attrset, slk_attroff and slk_attr routines corre-
+ spond to attron, attrset, attroff and attr_get, respectively. They
+ have an effect only if soft labels are simulated on the bottom line of
+ the screen. The default highlight for soft keys is A_STANDOUT (as in
+ System V curses, which does not document this fact).
- The slk_color routine corresponds to color_set. It has an
- effect only if soft labels are simulated on the bottom
- line of the screen.
+ The slk_color routine corresponds to color_set. It has an effect only
+ if soft labels are simulated on the bottom line of the screen.
- Because slk_color accepts only short (signed 16-bit inte-
- ger) values, this implementation provides extend-
- ed_slk_color which accepts an integer value, e.g.,
- 32-bits.
+ Because slk_color accepts only short (signed 16-bit integer) values,
+ this implementation provides extended_slk_color which accepts an inte-
+ ger value, e.g., 32-bits.
- These routines return ERR upon failure and OK (SVr4 speci-
- fies only "an integer value other than ERR") upon success-
- ful completion.
+ These routines return ERR upon failure and OK (SVr4 specifies only "an
+ integer value other than ERR") upon successful completion.
- X/Open defines no error conditions. In this implementa-
- tion
+ X/Open defines no error conditions. In this implementation
slk_attr
returns the attribute used for the soft keys.
- slk_attroff, slk_attron, slk_clear, slk_noutrefresh,
- slk_refresh, slk_touch
- return an error if the terminal or the softkeys
- were not initialized.
+ slk_attroff, slk_attron, slk_clear, slk_noutrefresh, slk_refresh,
+ slk_touch
+ return an error if the terminal or the softkeys were not ini-
+ tialized.
slk_attrset
- returns an error if the terminal or the softkeys
- were not initialized.
+ returns an error if the terminal or the softkeys were not ini-
+ tialized.
slk_attr_set
- returns an error if the terminal or the softkeys
- were not initialized, or the color pair is outside
- the range 0..COLOR_PAIRS-1.
+ returns an error if the terminal or the softkeys were not ini-
+ tialized, or the color pair is outside the range 0..COL-
+ OR_PAIRS-1.
slk_color
- returns an error if the terminal or the softkeys
- were not initialized, or the color pair is outside
- the range 0..COLOR_PAIRS-1.
+ returns an error if the terminal or the softkeys were not ini-
+ tialized, or the color pair is outside the range 0..COL-
+ OR_PAIRS-1.
slk_init
- returns an error if the format parameter is out-
- side the range 0..3.
+ returns an error if the format parameter is outside the range
+ 0..3.
slk_label
returns NULL on error.
slk_set
- returns an error if the terminal or the softkeys
- were not initialized, or the labnum parameter is
- outside the range of label counts, or if the for-
- mat parameter is outside the range 0..2, or if
- memory for the labels cannot be allocated.
+ returns an error if the terminal or the softkeys were not ini-
+ tialized, or the labnum parameter is outside the range of label
+ counts, or if the format parameter is outside the range 0..2,
+ or if memory for the labels cannot be allocated.
- X/Open Curses documents the opts argument as reserved for
- future use, saying that it must be null. This implementa-
- tion uses that parameter in ABI 6 for the functions which
- have a color-pair parameter to support extended color
- pairs.
+ 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.
- For functions which modify the color, e.g., slk_at-
- tr_set, 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.
+ For functions which modify the color, e.g., slk_attr_set, 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.
- Most applications would use slk_noutrefresh because a wre-
- fresh is likely to follow soon.
+ Most applications would use slk_noutrefresh because a wrefresh is like-
+ ly to follow soon.
- The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4, described the soft-key
- functions, with some differences from SVr4 curses:
+ The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4, described the soft-key functions,
+ with some differences from SVr4 curses:
- o It added functions like the SVr4 attribute-manipula-
- tion functions slk_attron, slk_attroff, slk_attrset,
- but which use attr_t parameters (rather than chtype),
- along with a reserved opts parameter.
+ o It added functions like the SVr4 attribute-manipulation functions
+ slk_attron, slk_attroff, slk_attrset, but which use attr_t parame-
+ ters (rather than chtype), along with a reserved opts parameter.
- Two of these new functions (unlike the SVr4 functions)
- have no provision for color: slk_attr_on and slk_at-
- tr_off.
+ Two of these new functions (unlike the SVr4 functions) have no pro-
+ vision for color: slk_attr_on and slk_attr_off.
- The third function (slk_attr_set) has a color-pair pa-
- rameter.
+ The third function (slk_attr_set) has a color-pair parameter.
- o It added const qualifiers to parameters (unnecessari-
- ly), and
+ o It added const qualifiers to parameters (unnecessarily), and
o It added slk_color.
- The format codes 2 and 3 for slk_init and the function
- slk_attr are specific to ncurses.
+ The format codes 2 and 3 for slk_init and the function slk_attr are
+ specific to ncurses.
- X/Open Curses does not specify a limit for the number of
- colors and color pairs which a terminal can support. How-
- ever, in its use of short for the parameters, it carries
- over SVr4's implementation detail for the compiled termin-
- fo database, which uses signed 16-bit numbers. This im-
- plementation provides extended versions of those functions
- which use short parameters, allowing applications to use
- larger color- and pair-numbers.
+ X/Open Curses does not specify a limit for the number of colors and
+ color pairs which a terminal can support. However, in its use of short
+ for the parameters, it carries over SVr4's implementation detail for
+ the compiled terminfo database, which uses signed 16-bit numbers. This
+ implementation provides extended versions of those functions which use
+ short parameters, allowing applications to use larger color- and pair-
+ numbers.