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curs_attr(3)

NAME

       attroff,  wattroff,  attron,  wattron,  attrset,  wattrset,  color_set,
       wcolor_set,  standend,  wstandend,   standout,	wstandout,   attr_get,
       wattr_get, attr_off, wattr_off, attr_on, wattr_on, attr_set, wattr_set,
       chgat, wchgat, mvchgat, mvwchgat, PAIR_NUMBER -	curses	character  and
       window attribute control routines

SYNOPSIS

       #include <curses.h>
       int attroff(int attrs);
       int wattroff(WINDOW *win, int attrs);
       int attron(int attrs);
       int wattron(WINDOW *win, int attrs);
       int attrset(int attrs);
       int wattrset(WINDOW *win, int attrs);
       int color_set(short color_pair_number, void* opts);
       int wcolor_set(WINDOW *win, short color_pair_number,
	     void* opts);
       int standend(void);
       int wstandend(WINDOW *win);
       int standout(void);
       int wstandout(WINDOW *win);
       int attr_get(attr_t *attrs, short *pair, void *opts);
       int wattr_get(WINDOW *win, attr_t *attrs, short *pair,
	      void *opts);
       int attr_off(attr_t attrs, void *opts);
       int wattr_off(WINDOW *win, attr_t attrs, void *opts);
       int attr_on(attr_t attrs, void *opts);
       int wattr_on(WINDOW *win, attr_t attrs, void *opts);
       int attr_set(attr_t attrs, short pair, void *opts);
       int wattr_set(WINDOW *win, attr_t attrs, short pair, void *opts);
       int chgat(int n, attr_t attr, short color,
	     const void *opts)
       int wchgat(WINDOW *win, int n, attr_t attr,
	     short color, const void *opts)
       int mvchgat(int y, int x, int n, attr_t attr,
	     short color, const void *opts)
       int mvwchgat(WINDOW *win, int y, int x, int n,
	     attr_t attr, short color, const void *opts)

DESCRIPTION

       These  routines	manipulate the current attributes of the named window.
       The current attributes of a window apply to  all  characters  that  are
       written	into  the window with waddch, waddstr and wprintw.  Attributes
       are a property of the character, and move with  the  character  through
       any  scrolling  and  insert/delete  line/character  operations.	To the
       extent possible, they are displayed as appropriate modifications to the
       graphic rendition of characters put on the screen.

       The  routine attrset sets the current attributes of the given window to
       attrs.  The routine attroff turns  off  the  named  attributes  without
       turning	any  other  attributes on or off.  The routine attron turns on
       the named attributes without affecting any others.  The routine	stand-
       out  is	the  same  as attron(A_STANDOUT).  The routine standend is the
       same as attrset(A_NORMAL) or attrset(0), that  is,  it  turns  off  all
       the given window; attr_get returns the current attribute and color pair
       for stdscr.  The remaining attr_* functions operate  exactly  like  the
       corresponding  attr* functions, except that they take arguments of type
       attr_t rather than int.

       The routine chgat changes the attributes of a given number  of  charac-
       ters  starting  at  the current cursor location of stdscr.  It does not
       update the cursor and does not perform wrapping.  A character count  of
       -1  or  greater	than  the  remaining  window  width  means  to	change
       attributes all the way to the end of  the  current  line.   The	wchgat
       function  generalizes  this to any window; the mvwchgat function does a
       cursor move before acting.  In these functions, the color argument is a
       color-pair   index   (as  in  the  first  argument  of  init_pair,  see
       curs_color(3X)).  The opts argument  is	not  presently	used,  but  is
       reserved for the future (leave it NULL).

   Attributes
       The following video attributes, defined in <curses.h>, can be passed to
       the routines attron, attroff, and attrset, or OR'ed with the characters
       passed to addch.

	       A_NORMAL        Normal display (no highlight)
	       A_STANDOUT      Best highlighting mode of the terminal.
	       A_UNDERLINE     Underlining
	       A_REVERSE       Reverse video
	       A_BLINK	       Blinking
	       A_DIM	       Half bright
	       A_BOLD	       Extra bright or bold
	       A_PROTECT       Protected mode
	       A_INVIS	       Invisible or blank mode
	       A_ALTCHARSET    Alternate character set
	       A_CHARTEXT      Bit-mask to extract a character
	       COLOR_PAIR(n)   Color-pair number n

       The following macro is the reverse of COLOR_PAIR(n):

       PAIR_NUMBER(attrs) Returns the pair number associated
			  with the COLOR_PAIR(n) attribute.

       The  return  values  of many of these routines are not meaningful (they
       are implemented as macro-expanded assignments and simply  return  their
       argument).   The  SVr4 manual page claims (falsely) that these routines
       always return 1.

NOTES

       Note  that  attroff,  wattroff,	attron,  wattron,  attrset,  wattrset,
       standend and standout may be macros.

PORTABILITY

       All  these functions are supported in the XSI Curses standard, Issue 4.
       The standard defined the dedicated type for highlights,	attr_t,  which
       is  not	defined  in SVr4 curses. The functions taking attr_t arguments
       are not supported under SVr4.

       The XSI Curses standard states that whether the	traditional  functions
       attron/attroff/attrset  can  manipulate	attributes other than A_BLINK,
       WA_.

	       WA_NORMAL       Normal display (no highlight)
	       WA_STANDOUT     Best highlighting mode of the terminal.
	       WA_UNDERLINE    Underlining
	       WA_REVERSE      Reverse video
	       WA_BLINK        Blinking
	       WA_DIM	       Half bright
	       WA_BOLD	       Extra bright or bold
	       WA_ALTCHARSET   Alternate character set

       The XSI curses standard specifies that each pair  of  corresponding  A_
       and WA_-using functions operates on the same current-highlight informa-
       tion.

       The XSI standard extended conformance level adds new highlights A_HORI-
       ZONTAL,	A_LEFT,  A_LOW,  A_RIGHT, A_TOP, A_VERTICAL (and corresponding
       WA_ macros for each) which this curses does not yet support.

SEE ALSO

       curses(3X), curs_addch(3X), curs_addstr(3X), curs_printw(3X)

								 curs_attr(3X)

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