curs_inch(3ocurses)

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

Synopsis

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

#include <ocurses.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 ocurses.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(3ocurses)

Notices

The header file ocurses.h automatically includes the header files stdio.h and unctrl.h.

Note that all of these routines may be macros.