NAME

inch, mvinch, mvwinch, winch − return a single-byte character (with rendition)

SYNOPSIS

#include <curses.h>

chtype inch(void);

chtype mvinch(int y, int x);

chtype mvwinch(WINDOW ∗win, int y, int x);

chtype winch(WINDOW ∗win);

ARGUMENTS

yIs the y (row) coordinate of the position of the character to be returned. 

xIs the x (column) coordinate of the position of the character to be returned. 

winIs a pointer to the window that contains the character to be returned. 

DESCRIPTION

The inch() and winch() functions return the chtype character located at the current cursor position of the stdscr window and window win, respectively.  The mvinch() and mvwinch() functions return the chtype character located at the position indicated by the x (column) and y (row) parameters (the former in the stdscr window; the latter in window win). 

The complete character/attribute pair will be returned.  The character or attributes can be extracted by performing a bitwise AND on the returned value, using the constants A_CHARTEXT, A_ATTRIBUTES, and A_COLOR. 

RETURN VALUES

On success, these functions return the specified character and rendition.  Otherwise, they return ERR. 

ERRORS

None. 

SEE ALSO

addch(3XC), attroff(3XC)

SunOS 5.6  —  Last change: 1 Jun 1996