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42 .Nd curses add characters to windows routines
50 .Fn waddch "WINDOW *win" "chtype ch"
52 .Fn mvaddch "int y" "int x" "chtype ch"
54 .Fn mvwaddch "WINDOW *win" "int y" "int x" "chtype ch"
56 These functions add characters to
58 or to the specified window.
62 function adds the character given in
66 at the current cursor position and advances the current cursor position by one.
67 Any character attributes set in
69 will be merged with the background attributes currently set on
74 function is the same as the
76 function, excepting that the character is added to the window specified by
83 functions are the same as the
87 functions, respectively, excepting that
89 is called to move the cursor to the position specified by
92 before the character is added to the window.
93 .Ss LINE DRAWING CHARACTERS
94 Some terminals support the display of line drawing and graphics characters.
95 These characters can be added using their defined names, as shown in the
97 Where the terminal does not support a specific character, the default
98 (non-graphics) character is displayed instead.
99 .Bl -column -offset indent ".Sy System V Name" ".Sy Default"
100 .It Sy "Name" Ta Sy "Default" Ta Sy "Description"
101 .It ACS_RARROW Ta \*[Gt] Ta "Arrow pointing right"
102 .It ACS_LARROW Ta \*[Lt] Ta "Arrow pointing left"
103 .It ACS_UARROW Ta ^ Ta "Arrow pointing up"
104 .It ACS_DARROW Ta v Ta "Arrow pointing down"
105 .It ACS_BLOCK Ta # Ta "Solid square block"
106 .It ACS_DIAMOND Ta + Ta "Diamond"
107 .It ACS_CKBOARD Ta : Ta "Checker board (stipple)"
108 .It ACS_DEGREE Ta ' Ta "Degree symbol"
109 .It ACS_PLMINUS Ta # Ta "Plus/minus"
110 .It ACS_BOARD Ta # Ta "Board of squares"
111 .It ACS_LANTERN Ta # Ta "Lantern symbol"
112 .It ACS_LRCORNER Ta + Ta "Lower right-hand corner"
113 .It ACS_URCORNER Ta + Ta "Upper right-hand corner"
114 .It ACS_ULCORNER Ta + Ta "Upper left-hand corner"
115 .It ACS_LLCORNER Ta + Ta "Lower left-hand corner"
116 .It ACS_PLUS Ta + Ta "Plus"
117 .It ACS_HLINE Ta - Ta "Horizontal line"
118 .It ACS_S1 Ta - Ta "Scan line 1"
119 .It ACS_S9 Ta - Ta "Scan line 9"
120 .It ACS_LTEE Ta + Ta "Left tee"
121 .It ACS_RTEE Ta + Ta "Right tee"
122 .It ACS_BTEE Ta + Ta "Bottom tee"
123 .It ACS_TTEE Ta + Ta "Top tee"
124 .It ACS_VLINE Ta | Ta "Vertical line"
125 .It ACS_BULLET Ta o Ta "Bullet"
128 The following additional,
130 compatible, characters are also supported.
131 .Bl -column -offset indent ".Sy System V Name" ".Sy Default"
132 .It Sy "Name" Ta Sy "Default" Ta Sy "Description"
133 .It ACS_S3 Ta - Ta "Scan line 3"
134 .It ACS_S7 Ta - Ta "Scan line 7"
135 .It ACS_LEQUAL Ta \*[Lt] Ta "Less than or equal to"
136 .It ACS_GEQUAL Ta \*[Gt] Ta "Greater than or equal to"
137 .It ACS_PI Ta * Ta "Pi symbol"
138 .It ACS_NEQUAL Ta ! Ta "Not equal to"
139 .It ACS_STERLING Ta f Ta "Sterling symbol"
142 For compatibility with some
144 implementations, the following definitions are also supported.
145 .Bl -column -offset indent ".Sy System V Name" ".Sy Default"
146 .It Sy "System V Name" Ta Sy "NetBSD Curses Name"
147 .It ACS_SBBS Ta ACS_LRCORNER
148 .It ACS_BBSS Ta ACS_URCORNER
149 .It ACS_BSSB Ta ACS_ULCORNER
150 .It ACS_SSBB Ta ACS_LLCORNER
151 .It ACS_SSSS Ta ACS_PLUS
152 .It ACS_BSBS Ta ACS_HLINE
153 .It ACS_SSSB Ta ACS_LTEE
154 .It ACS_SBSS Ta ACS_RTEE
155 .It ACS_SSBS Ta ACS_BTEE
156 .It ACS_BSSS Ta ACS_TTEE
157 .It ACS_SBSB Ta ACS_VLINE
160 Functions returning pointers will return
162 if an error is detected.
163 The functions that return an int will return one of the following
166 .Bl -tag -width ERR -compact
168 The function completed successfully.
170 An error occurred in the function.
173 .Xr curses_addchstr 3 ,
174 .Xr curses_addstr 3 ,
175 .Xr curses_attributes 3 ,
176 .Xr curses_cursor 3 ,
179 .Xr curses_insertch 3
183 Curses library complies with the X/Open Curses specification, part of the
184 Single Unix Specification.
186 The Curses package appeared in