NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | EXTENSIONS | NOTES | RETURN VALUE | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

curs_getcchar(3X)                                          curs_getcchar(3X)

NAME         top

       getcchar, setcchar - Get a wide character string and rendition from a
       cchar_t or set a cchar_t from a wide-character string

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <curses.h>
       int getcchar(
               const cchar_t *wcval,
               wchar_t *wch,
               attr_t *attrs,
               short *color_pair,
               void *opts );
       int setcchar(
               cchar_t *wcval,
               const wchar_t *wch,
               const attr_t attrs,
               short color_pair,
               void *opts );

DESCRIPTION         top

   getcchar
       The getcchar function gets a wide-character string and rendition from
       a cchar_t argument.  When wch is not a null pointer, the getcchar
       function does the following:
       ·   Extracts information from a cchar_t value wcval
       ·   Stores the character attributes in the location pointed to by
           attrs
       ·   Stores the color-pair in the location pointed to by color_pair
       ·   Stores the wide-character string, characters referenced by wcval,
           into the array pointed to by wch.
       When wch is a null pointer, the getcchar function does the following:
       ·   Obtains the number of wide characters pointed to by wcval
       ·   Does not change the data referenced by attrs or color_pair
   setcchar
       The setcchar function initializes the location pointed to by wcval by
       using:
       ·   The character attributes in attrs
       ·   The color pair in color_pair
       ·   The wide-character string pointed to by wch.  The string must be
           L'\0' terminated, contain at most one spacing character, which
           must be the first.
           Up to CCHARW_MAX-1 nonspacing characters may follow.  Additional
           nonspacing characters are ignored.
           The string may contain a single control character instead.  In
           that case, no nonspacing characters are allowed.

EXTENSIONS         top

       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., setcchar, 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 retrieve the color, e.g., getcchar, if opts
           is set it is treated as a pointer to int, and  used  to  retrieve
           the color pair as an int value, in addition retrieving it via the
           standard pointer to short parameter.

NOTES         top

       The wcval argument may be a value generated by a call to setcchar or
       by a function that has a cchar_t output argument.  If wcval is
       constructed by any other means, the effect is unspecified.

RETURN VALUE         top

       When wch is a null pointer, getcchar returns the number of wide
       characters referenced by wcval, including one for a trailing null.
       When wch is not a null pointer, getcchar returns OK upon successful
       completion, and ERR otherwise.
       Upon successful completion, setcchar returns OK.  Otherwise, it
       returns ERR.

SEE ALSO         top

       Functions: curs_attr(3X), curs_color(3X), curses(3X), wcwidth(3).

COLOPHON         top

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