curs_inwch(3curses)                              curs_inwch(3curses)


       NAME
             curs_inwch: inwch, winwch, mvinwch, mvwinwch - get a wchar_t
             character and its attributes from a curses window

       SYNOPSIS
             cc [flag . . .] file -lcurses [library . . .]
             #include <curses.h>
             chtype inwch(void);
             chtype winwch(WINDOW *win);
             chtype mvinwch(int y, int x);
             chtype mvwinwch(WINDOW *win, int y, int x);

       DESCRIPTION
             These routines return the wchar_t 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 winwch.

            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(3curses)

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

             Note that all of these routines may be macros.









                           Copyright 1994 Novell, Inc.               Page 1