curs_inch(3)

NAME

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

#include <curses.h>
chtype inch(void);
chtype winch(WINDOW *win);
chtype mvinch(int y, int x);
chtype mvwinch(WINDOW *win, int y, int x);

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 infor

mation

Note that all of these routines may be macros.

These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard,

Issue 4.