curs_inwch(3curses)
curs_inwch: inwch, winwch, mvinwch, mvwinwch --
get a wchar_t character and its attributes from a curses window
Synopsis
cc [flag . . .] file -lcurses [library . . .]
#include <curses.h>
chtype inwch(void);
chtype winwch(WINDOW
win);
chtype mvinwch(int y, int x);
chtype mvwinwch(WINDOW
win, int y, int x);
Description
These routines return the wchar_t 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
winwch.
- A_CHARTEXT
-
Bit-mask to extract character
- A_ATTRIBUTES
-
Bit-mask to extract attributes
- A_COLOR
-
Bit-mask to extract color-pair field information
References
curses(3curses)
Notices
The header file curses.h automatically includes the header files
stdio.h and unctrl.h.
Note that all of these routines may be macros.
30 January 1998
© 1998 The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. All rights reserved.