NAME¶

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

SYNOPSIS¶

#include <curses.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 <curses.h> can be used with the & (logical AND) operator to extract the character or attributes alone.

NOTES¶

Note that all of these routines may be macros.

PORTABILITY¶

These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard, Issue 4.

SEE ALSO¶

curses(3X).

Comparable functions in the wide-character (ncursesw) library are described in curs_in_wch(3X).