curs_inch(3curses)


curs_inch: inch, winch, mvinch, mvwinch -- get a character and its attributes from a curses window

Synopsis

   cc [flag . . .] file -lcurses [library . . .] 
   

#include <curses.h>

chtype inch(void); chtype winch(WINDOW *win); chtype mvinch(int y, int x); chtype mvwinch(WINDOW *win, int y, int x);

Description

These routines return the 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 winch.

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
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