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<STRONG><A HREF="curs_util.3x.html">curs_util(3x)</A></STRONG>                    Library calls                   <STRONG><A HREF="curs_util.3x.html">curs_util(3x)</A></STRONG>




</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
       <STRONG>delay_output</STRONG>,  <STRONG>filter</STRONG>,  <STRONG>flushinp</STRONG>,  <STRONG>getwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>key_name</STRONG>, <STRONG>keyname</STRONG>, <STRONG>nofilter</STRONG>,
       <STRONG>putwin</STRONG>, <STRONG>unctrl</STRONG>, <STRONG>use_env</STRONG>, <STRONG>use_tioctl</STRONG>,  <STRONG>wunctrl</STRONG>  -  miscellaneous  <EM>curses</EM>
       utility routines


</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
       <STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG>

       <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*unctrl(chtype</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
       <STRONG>wchar_t</STRONG> <STRONG>*wunctrl(cchar_t</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>wch</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>

       <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*keyname(int</STRONG> <EM>c</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
       <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*key_name(wchar_t</STRONG> <EM>wc</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>

       <STRONG>void</STRONG> <STRONG>filter(void);</STRONG>

       <STRONG>void</STRONG> <STRONG>use_env(bool</STRONG> <EM>f</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>

       <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>putwin(WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>FILE</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>filep</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
       <STRONG>WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*getwin(FILE</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>filep</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>

       <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>delay_output(int</STRONG> <EM>ms</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
       <STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>flushinp(void);</STRONG>

       <EM>/*</EM> <EM>extensions</EM> <EM>*/</EM>
       <STRONG>void</STRONG> <STRONG>nofilter(void);</STRONG>
       <STRONG>void</STRONG> <STRONG>use_tioctl(bool</STRONG> <EM>f</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>


</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>

</PRE><H3><a name="h3-unctrl">unctrl</a></H3><PRE>
       The  <STRONG>unctrl</STRONG>  routine  returns  a  character string which is a printable
       representation of the character <EM>ch</EM>:

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   Printable characters are displayed  as  themselves,  e.g.,  a  one-
           character string containing the key.

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   Control characters are displayed in the <STRONG>^</STRONG><EM>X</EM> notation.

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   Printing characters are displayed as is.

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   DEL (character 127) is displayed as <STRONG>^?</STRONG>.

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   Values  above 128 are either meta characters (if the screen has not
           been initialized, or if  <STRONG><A HREF="curs_inopts.3x.html">meta(3x)</A></STRONG>  has  been  called  with  a  <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG>
           parameter),  shown  in  the  <STRONG>M-</STRONG><EM>X</EM>  notation,  or  are  displayed  as
           themselves.  In the latter case, the values may not  be  printable;
           this follows the X/Open specification.

       The  corresponding  <STRONG>wunctrl</STRONG>  returns  a  printable  representation of a
       complex character <EM>wch</EM>.

       In both <STRONG>unctrl</STRONG> and <STRONG>wunctrl</STRONG> the attributes and color associated with the
       character parameter are ignored.


</PRE><H3><a name="h3-keyname_key_name">keyname, key_name</a></H3><PRE>
       The <STRONG>keyname</STRONG> routine returns a character string corresponding to the key
       <EM>c</EM>.  Key codes are different from character codes.

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   Key codes below 256  are  characters.   They  are  displayed  using
           <STRONG>unctrl</STRONG>.

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   Values  above 256 may be the codes for function keys.  The function
           key name is displayed.

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   Otherwise (if there is no corresponding name and the key is  not  a
           character)  the  function returns null, to denote an error.  X/Open
           also  lists   an   "UNKNOWN   KEY"   return   value,   which   some
           implementations return rather than null.

       The   corresponding  <STRONG>key_name</STRONG>  returns  a  multibyte  character  string
       corresponding  to  the  wide-character  value  <EM>w</EM>.   The  two  functions
       (<STRONG>keyname</STRONG> and <STRONG>key_name</STRONG>) do not return the same set of strings:

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   <STRONG>keyname</STRONG> returns null where <STRONG>key_name</STRONG> would display a meta character.

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   <STRONG>key_name</STRONG> does not return the name of a function key.


</PRE><H3><a name="h3-filter_nofilter">filter, nofilter</a></H3><PRE>
       The  <STRONG>filter</STRONG>  routine, if used, must be called before <STRONG>initscr</STRONG> or <STRONG>newterm</STRONG>
       are called.  Calling <STRONG>filter</STRONG> causes these changes in initialization:

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   <STRONG>LINES</STRONG> is set to 1;

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   the  capabilities  <STRONG>clear</STRONG>,  <STRONG>cud1</STRONG>,  <STRONG>cud</STRONG>,  <STRONG>cup</STRONG>,  <STRONG>cuu1</STRONG>,  <STRONG>cuu</STRONG>,  <STRONG>vpa</STRONG>  are
           disabled;

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   the capability <STRONG>ed</STRONG> is disabled if <STRONG>bce</STRONG> is set;

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   and the <STRONG>home</STRONG> string is set to the value of <STRONG>cr</STRONG>.

       The  <STRONG>nofilter</STRONG>  routine  cancels  the effect of a preceding <STRONG>filter</STRONG> call.
       That allows the caller to initialize a screen on  a  different  device,
       using  a  different  value of <STRONG>$TERM</STRONG>.  The limitation arises because the
       <STRONG>filter</STRONG> routine modifies the in-memory copy of the terminal information.


</PRE><H3><a name="h3-use_env">use_env</a></H3><PRE>
       The <STRONG>use_env</STRONG> routine, if  used,  should  be  called  before  <STRONG>initscr</STRONG>  or
       <STRONG>newterm</STRONG>  are  called  (because  those  compute  the  screen  size).  It
       modifies the way <EM>ncurses</EM> treats environment variables when  determining
       the screen size.

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   Normally  <EM>ncurses</EM>  looks  first  at  the  terminal database for the
           screen size.

           If <STRONG>use_env</STRONG> was called with  <STRONG>FALSE</STRONG>  for  parameter,  it  stops  here
           unless <STRONG>use_tioctl</STRONG> was also called with <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG> for parameter.

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   Then  it  asks  for the screen size via operating system calls.  If
           successful, it overrides the values from the terminal database.

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   Finally (unless <STRONG>use_env</STRONG> was called with <STRONG>FALSE</STRONG>  parameter),  <EM>ncurses</EM>
           examines  the <EM>LINES</EM> or <EM>COLUMNS</EM> environment variables, using a value
           in those to override the  results  from  the  operating  system  or
           terminal database.

           <EM>curses</EM> also updates the screen size in response to <STRONG>SIGWINCH</STRONG>, unless
           overridden by the <EM>LINES</EM> or <EM>COLUMNS</EM> environment variables,


</PRE><H3><a name="h3-use_tioctl">use_tioctl</a></H3><PRE>
       The <STRONG>use_tioctl</STRONG> routine, if used, should be  called  before  <STRONG>initscr</STRONG>  or
       <STRONG>newterm</STRONG>  are  called  (because  those  compute the screen size).  After
       <STRONG>use_tioctl</STRONG> is called with <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG> as an  argument,  <EM>ncurses</EM>  modifies  the
       last step in its computation of screen size as follows:

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   checks  if the <EM>LINES</EM> and <EM>COLUMNS</EM> environment variables are set to a
           number greater than zero.

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   for each, <EM>ncurses</EM> updates the  corresponding  environment  variable
           with  the  value  that it has obtained via operating system call or
           from the terminal database.

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   <EM>ncurses</EM> re-fetches the value of the environment variables  so  that
           it is still the environment variables which set the screen size.

       The <STRONG>use_env</STRONG> and <STRONG>use_tioctl</STRONG> routines combine as follows.

              <STRONG>use_env</STRONG>   <STRONG>use_tioctl</STRONG>   <STRONG>Summary</STRONG>
              -----------------------------------------------------------------
              <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG>      <STRONG>FALSE</STRONG>        This  is  the  default behavior.  <EM>ncurses</EM>
                                     uses  operating   system   calls   unless
                                     overridden    by    <EM>LINES</EM>    or   <EM>COLUMNS</EM>
                                     environment variables; default.
              <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG>      <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG>         <EM>ncurses</EM> updates <EM>LINES</EM> and  <EM>COLUMNS</EM>  based
                                     on operating system calls.
              <STRONG>FALSE</STRONG>     <STRONG>TRUE</STRONG>         <EM>ncurses</EM>  ignores <EM>LINES</EM> and <EM>COLUMNS</EM>, using
                                     operating system calls to obtain size.


</PRE><H3><a name="h3-putwin_getwin">putwin, getwin</a></H3><PRE>
       The <STRONG>putwin</STRONG> routine writes all data associated with window (or pad)  <EM>win</EM>
       into  the  file  to  which <EM>filep</EM> points.  This information can be later
       retrieved using the <STRONG>getwin</STRONG> function.

       The <STRONG>getwin</STRONG> routine reads window related data  stored  in  the  file  by
       <STRONG>putwin</STRONG>.   The  routine  then creates and initializes a new window using
       that data.  It returns a pointer to the new window.  There  are  a  few
       caveats:

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   the  data  written  is  a  copy  of  the  <EM>WINDOW</EM> structure, and its
           associated character cells.  The format differs between  the  wide-
           character  (<EM>ncursesw</EM>)  and  non-wide  (<EM>ncurses</EM>) libraries.  You can
           transfer data between the two, however.

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   the retrieved window is always created as a  top-level  window  (or
           pad), rather than a subwindow.

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   the  window's character cells contain the color pair <EM>value</EM>, but not
           the actual color <EM>numbers</EM>.  If cells in  the  retrieved  window  use
           color  pairs  which  have not been created in the application using
           <STRONG>init_pair</STRONG>, they will not be colored when the window is refreshed.


</PRE><H3><a name="h3-delay_output">delay_output</a></H3><PRE>
       The <STRONG>delay_output</STRONG> routine inserts an <EM>ms</EM>  millisecond  pause  in  output.
       Employ  this  function  judiciously  when terminal output uses padding,
       because <EM>ncurses</EM>  transmits  null  characters  (consuming  CPU  and  I/O
       resources)  instead  of  sleeping  and  requesting  resumption from the
       operating system.  Padding is used unless:

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   the terminal description has <STRONG>npc</STRONG> (<STRONG>no_pad_char</STRONG>) capability, or

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   the environment variable <STRONG>NCURSES_NO_PADDING</STRONG> is set.

       If padding is not in use, <EM>ncurses</EM> uses <STRONG>napms</STRONG> to perform the delay.   If
       the  value  of <EM>ms</EM> exceeds 30,000 (thirty seconds), it is capped at that
       value.


</PRE><H3><a name="h3-flushinp">flushinp</a></H3><PRE>
       The <STRONG>flushinp</STRONG> routine throws away any typeahead that has been  typed  by
       the user and has not yet been read by the program.


</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
       Except  for  <STRONG>flushinp</STRONG>,  routines that return an integer return <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> upon
       failure and <STRONG>OK</STRONG> (SVr4 specifies only "an integer value other than  <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>")
       upon successful completion.

       Routines that return pointers return <STRONG>NULL</STRONG> on error.

       X/Open   Curses  does  not  specify  any  error  conditions.   In  this
       implementation

          <STRONG>flushinp</STRONG>
               returns an error if the terminal was not initialized.

          <STRONG>putwin</STRONG>
               returns an error if  the  associated  <STRONG>fwrite</STRONG>  calls  return  an
               error.


</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>

</PRE><H3><a name="h3-filter">filter</a></H3><PRE>
       The  SVr4  documentation  describes  the  action  of <STRONG>filter</STRONG> only in the
       vaguest terms.  The description here  is  adapted  from  X/Open  Curses
       (which erroneously fails to describe the disabling of <STRONG>cuu</STRONG>).


</PRE><H3><a name="h3-delay_output-padding">delay_output padding</a></H3><PRE>
       The  limitation  to  30  seconds and the use of <STRONG>napms</STRONG> differ from other
       implementations.

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   SVr4 curses does not delay if no padding character is available.

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   NetBSD curses uses <STRONG>napms</STRONG> when no padding  character  is  available,
           but  does  not  take  timing  into  account  when using the padding
           character.

       Neither limits the delay.


</PRE><H3><a name="h3-keyname">keyname</a></H3><PRE>
       The <STRONG>keyname</STRONG> function  may  return  the  names  of  user-defined  string
       capabilities  which are defined in the terminfo entry via the <STRONG>-x</STRONG> option
       of <STRONG>tic</STRONG>.  This implementation automatically assigns at run-time keycodes
       to  user-defined  strings  which begin with "k".  The keycodes start at
       KEY_MAX, but are not guaranteed to be the same value for different runs
       because  user-defined  codes  are merged from all terminal descriptions
       which have been loaded.  The <STRONG><A HREF="curs_extend.3x.html">use_extended_names(3x)</A></STRONG>  function  controls
       whether  this  data  is loaded when the terminal description is read by
       the library.


</PRE><H3><a name="h3-nofilter_use_tioctl">nofilter, use_tioctl</a></H3><PRE>
       The <STRONG>nofilter</STRONG> and <STRONG>use_tioctl</STRONG> routines are  specific  to  <EM>ncurses</EM>.   They
       were  not  supported on Version 7, BSD or System V implementations.  It
       is recommended  that  any  code  depending  on  <EM>ncurses</EM>  extensions  be
       conditioned using <STRONG>NCURSES_VERSION</STRONG>.


</PRE><H3><a name="h3-putwin_getwin-file-format">putwin/getwin file-format</a></H3><PRE>
       The <STRONG>putwin</STRONG> and <STRONG>getwin</STRONG> functions have several issues with portability:

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   The   files   written   and   read   by   these  functions  use  an
           implementation-specific format.  Although the format is an  obvious
           target for standardization, it has been overlooked.

           Interestingly  enough,  according to the copyright dates in Solaris
           source, the functions (along with <STRONG>scr_init</STRONG>, etc.)  originated  with
           the University of California, Berkeley (in 1982) and were later (in
           1988) incorporated into SVr4.  Oddly, there are no  such  functions
           in the 4.3BSD curses sources.

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   Most implementations simply dump the binary <EM>WINDOW</EM> structure to the
           file.  These include SVr4 curses, NetBSD and PDCurses, as  well  as
           older <EM>ncurses</EM> versions.  This implementation (as well as the X/Open
           variant of Solaris curses, dated 1995) uses textual dumps.

           The implementations which  use  binary  dumps  use  block-I/O  (the
           <STRONG>fwrite</STRONG>  and  <STRONG>fread</STRONG>  functions).   Those  that use textual dumps use
           buffered-I/O.  A few applications may happen to write extra data in
           the  file  using these functions.  Doing that can run into problems
           mixing block- and buffered-I/O.  This  implementation  reduces  the
           problem  on writes by flushing the output.  However, reading from a
           file written using mixed schemes may not be successful.


</PRE><H3><a name="h3-unctrl_wunctrl">unctrl, wunctrl</a></H3><PRE>
       X/Open Curses, Issue 4  describes  these  functions.   It  states  that
       <STRONG>unctrl</STRONG> and <STRONG>wunctrl</STRONG> will return a null pointer if unsuccessful, but does
       not define any error conditions.  This implementation checks for  three
       cases:

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   the  parameter  is  a  7-bit  US-ASCII code.  This is the case that
           X/Open Curses documented.

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   the parameter is in the range 128-159, i.e., a C1 control code.  If
           <STRONG><A HREF="legacy_coding.3x.html">use_legacy_coding(3x)</A></STRONG>  has  been  called with a <STRONG>2</STRONG> parameter, <STRONG>unctrl</STRONG>
           returns the  parameter,  i.e.,  a  one-character  string  with  the
           parameter  as  the  first  character.   Otherwise, it returns "~@",
           "~A", etc., analogous to "^@", "^A", C0 controls.

           X/Open Curses does not document whether <STRONG>unctrl</STRONG> can be called before
           initializing curses.  This implementation permits that, and returns
           the "~@", etc., values in that case.

       <STRONG>o</STRONG>   parameter values outside the 0 to 255 range.  <STRONG>unctrl</STRONG> returns a null
           pointer.

       The strings returned by <STRONG>unctrl</STRONG> in this implementation are determined at
       compile time, showing C1 controls from the upper-128 codes with  a  "~"
       prefix   rather   than   "^".   Other  implementations  have  different
       conventions.   For  example,  they  may  show  both  sets  of   control
       characters  with  "^",  and strip the parameter to 7 bits.  Or they may
       ignore C1 controls and treat all of the upper-128 codes  as  printable.
       This  implementation  uses  8  bits  but  does not modify the string to
       reflect locale.  The <STRONG><A HREF="legacy_coding.3x.html">use_legacy_coding(3x)</A></STRONG> function allows  the  caller
       to change the output of <STRONG>unctrl</STRONG>.

       Likewise,  the <STRONG><A HREF="curs_inopts.3x.html">meta(3x)</A></STRONG> function allows the caller to change the output
       of <STRONG>keyname</STRONG>, i.e., it determines whether to  use  the  "M-"  prefix  for
       "meta"    keys    (codes    in   the   range   128   to   255).    Both
       <STRONG><A HREF="legacy_coding.3x.html">use_legacy_coding(3x)</A></STRONG>  and  <STRONG><A HREF="curs_inopts.3x.html">meta(3x)</A></STRONG>  succeed  only  after  curses   is
       initialized.   X/Open  Curses  does not document the treatment of codes
       128 to 159.  When treating them as "meta" keys (or if <STRONG>keyname</STRONG> is called
       before   initializing  curses),  this  implementation  returns  strings
       "M-^@", "M-^A", etc.

       X/Open Curses documents <STRONG>unctrl</STRONG> as declared in <STRONG>&lt;unctrl.h&gt;</STRONG>, which <EM>ncurses</EM>
       does.   However,  <EM>ncurses</EM>' <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG> includes <STRONG>&lt;unctrl.h&gt;</STRONG>, matching the
       behavior of SVr4 curses.  Other implementations may not do that.


</PRE><H3><a name="h3-use_env_use_tioctl">use_env, use_tioctl</a></H3><PRE>
       If <EM>ncurses</EM> is configured to provide  the  sp-functions  extension,  the
       state  of  <STRONG>use_env</STRONG>  and  <STRONG>use_tioctl</STRONG> may be updated before creating each
       <EM>screen</EM> rather than once  only  (<STRONG><A HREF="curs_sp_funcs.3x.html">curs_sp_funcs(3x)</A></STRONG>).   This  feature  of
       <STRONG>use_env</STRONG> is not provided by other implementations of curses.


</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
       <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>,    <STRONG><A HREF="curs_initscr.3x.html">curs_initscr(3x)</A></STRONG>,    <STRONG><A HREF="curs_inopts.3x.html">curs_inopts(3x)</A></STRONG>,   <STRONG><A HREF="curs_kernel.3x.html">curs_kernel(3x)</A></STRONG>,
       <STRONG><A HREF="curs_scr_dump.3x.html">curs_scr_dump(3x)</A></STRONG>,        <STRONG><A HREF="curs_sp_funcs.3x.html">curs_sp_funcs(3x)</A></STRONG>,        <STRONG><A HREF="curs_variables.3x.html">curs_variables(3x)</A></STRONG>,
       <STRONG><A HREF="legacy_coding.3x.html">legacy_coding(3x)</A></STRONG>



ncurses 6.5                       2024-04-20                     <STRONG><A HREF="curs_util.3x.html">curs_util(3x)</A></STRONG>
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