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getcchar(3NCURSES) | getcchar(3NCURSES) |
NAME¶
getcchar, setcchar - Get a wide character string and rendition from a cchar_t or set a cchar_t from a wide-character stringSYNOPSIS¶
#include <curses.h>DESCRIPTION¶
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
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- Stores the character attributes in the location pointed to by attrs
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- Stores the color-pair in the location pointed to by color_pair
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- Stores the wide-character string, characters referenced by wcval, into the array pointed to by wch.
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- Obtains the number of wide characters pointed to by wcval
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- Does not change the data referenced by attrs or color_pair
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- The character attributes in attrs
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- The color pair in color_pair
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- 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.