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$Id: curs_terminfo.3x,v 1.64 2020/02/02 23:34:34 tom Exp $
#include <curses.h>#include <term.h> TERMINAL *cur_term; const char * const boolnames[]; const char * const boolcodes[]; const char * const boolfnames[]; const char * const numnames[]; const char * const numcodes[]; const char * const numfnames[]; const char * const strnames[]; const char * const strcodes[]; const char * const strfnames[]; int setupterm(const char *term, int filedes, int *errret);
int setterm(const char *term);
TERMINAL *set_curterm(TERMINAL *nterm);
int del_curterm(TERMINAL *oterm);
int restartterm(const char *term, int filedes, int *errret); char *tparm(const char *str, ...);
int tputs(const char *str, int affcnt, int (*putc)(int));
int putp(const char *str); int vidputs(chtype attrs, int (*putc)(int));
int vidattr(chtype attrs);
int vid_puts(attr_t attrs, short pair, void *opts, int (*putc)(int));
int vid_attr(attr_t attrs, short pair, void *opts); int mvcur(int oldrow, int oldcol, int newrow, int newcol); int tigetflag(const char *capname);
int tigetnum(const char *capname);
char *tigetstr(const char *capname); char *tiparm(const char *str, ...);
Initially, setupterm should be called. The high-level curses functions initscr and newterm call setupterm to initialize the low-level set of terminal-dependent variables [listed in terminfo(\*n)].
Applications can use the terminal capabilities either directly (via header definitions), or by special functions. The header files curses.h and term.h should be included (in this order) to get the definitions for these strings, numbers, and flags.
The terminfo variables lines and columns are initialized by setupterm as follows: .bP If use_env(FALSE) has been called, values for lines and columns specified in terminfo are used. .bP Otherwise, if the environment variables LINES and COLUMNS exist, their values are used. If these environment variables do not exist and the program is running in a window, the current window size is used. Otherwise, if the environment variables do not exist, the values for lines and columns specified in the terminfo database are used.
Parameterized strings should be passed through tparm to instantiate them. All terminfo strings (including the output of tparm) should be printed with tputs or putp. Call reset_shell_mode to restore the tty modes before exiting [see curs_kernel(3X)].
Programs which use cursor addressing should .bP output enter_ca_mode upon startup and .bP output exit_ca_mode before exiting.
Programs which execute shell subprocesses should .bP call reset_shell_mode and output exit_ca_mode before the shell is called and .bP output enter_ca_mode and call reset_prog_mode after returning from the shell.
The setupterm routine reads in the terminfo database, initializing the terminfo structures, but does not set up the output virtualization structures used by curses. These are its parameters:
5 term is the terminal type, a character string. If term is null, the environment variable TERM is used.
5 filedes is the file descriptor used for all output.
5 errret points to an optional location where an error status can be returned to the caller. If errret is not null, then setupterm returns OK or ERR and stores a status value in the integer pointed to by errret. A return value of OK combined with status of 1 in errret is normal.
If ERR is returned, examine errret:
5 1 means that the terminal is hardcopy, cannot be used for curses applications.
setupterm determines if the entry is a hardcopy type by checking the hc (hardcopy) capability.5 0 means that the terminal could not be found, or that it is a generic type, having too little information for curses applications to run.
setupterm determines if the entry is a generic type by checking the gn (generic) capability.5 -1 means that the terminfo database could not be found.
The setterm routine was replaced by setupterm. The call:
setupterm(term, 1, (int *)0)
provides the same functionality as setterm(term).
The setterm routine is provided for BSD compatibility, and
is not recommended for new programs.
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The setupterm routine stores its information about the terminal in a TERMINAL structure pointed to by the global variable cur_term. If it detects an error, or decides that the terminal is unsuitable (hardcopy or generic), it discards this information, making it not available to applications.
If setupterm is called repeatedly for the same terminal type, it will reuse the information. It maintains only one copy of a given terminal's capabilities in memory. If it is called for different terminal types, setupterm allocates new storage for each set of terminal capabilities.
The set_curterm routine sets cur_term to nterm, and makes all of the terminfo boolean, numeric, and string variables use the values from nterm. It returns the old value of cur_term.
The del_curterm routine frees the space pointed to by oterm and makes it available for further use. If oterm is the same as cur_term, references to any of the terminfo boolean, numeric, and string variables thereafter may refer to invalid memory locations until another setupterm has been called.
The restartterm routine is similar to setupterm and initscr,
except that it is called after restoring memory to a previous state (for
example, when reloading a game saved as a core image dump).
restartterm assumes that the windows and the input and output options
are the same as when memory was saved,
but the terminal type and baud rate may be different.
Accordingly, restartterm saves various tty state bits,
calls setupterm, and then restores the bits.
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The tparm routine instantiates the string str with parameters pi. A pointer is returned to the result of str with the parameters applied. Application developers should keep in mind these quirks of the interface: .bP Although tparm's actual parameters may be integers or strings, the prototype expects long (integer) values. .bP Aside from the set_attributes (sgr) capability, most terminal capabilities require no more than one or two parameters.
tiparm is a newer form of tparm which uses <stdarg.h>
rather than a fixed-parameter list.
Its numeric parameters are integers (int) rather than longs.
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The tputs routine applies padding information to the string str and outputs it: .bP The str parameter must be a terminfo string variable or the return value from tparm, tiparm, tgetstr, or tgoto.
The tgetstr and tgoto functions are part of the termcap interface, which happens to share this function name with the terminfo interface. .bP affcnt is the number of lines affected, or 1 if not applicable. .bP putc is a putchar-like routine to which the characters are passed, one at a time.The putp routine calls tputs(str, 1, putchar). The output of putp always goes to stdout, rather than the filedes specified in setupterm.
The vidputs routine displays the string on the terminal in the video attribute mode attrs, which is any combination of the attributes listed in curses(3X). The characters are passed to the putchar-like routine putc.
The vidattr routine is like the vidputs routine, except that it outputs through putchar.
The vid_attr and vid_puts routines correspond to vidattr and vidputs, respectively. They use a set of arguments for representing the video attributes plus color, i.e., .bP attrs of type attr_t for the attributes and .bP pair of type short for the color-pair number.
The vid_attr and vid_puts routines are designed to use the attribute constants with the WA_ prefix.
X/Open Curses reserves the opts argument for future use, saying that applications must provide a null pointer for that argument. As an extension, this implementation allows opts to be used as a pointer to int, which overrides the pair (short) argument.
The mvcur routine provides low-level cursor motion.
It takes
effect immediately (rather than at the next refresh).
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The tigetflag, tigetnum and tigetstr routines return the value of the capability corresponding to the terminfo capname passed to them, such as xenl. The capname for each capability is given in the table column entitled capname code in the capabilities section of terminfo(\*n).
These routines return special values to denote errors.
The tigetflag routine returns
-1 if capname is not a boolean capability, or
0 if it is canceled or absent from the terminal description.
The tigetnum routine returns
-2 if capname is not a numeric capability, or
-1 if it is canceled or absent from the terminal description.
The tigetstr routine returns
(char *)-1 if capname is not a string capability, or
0
if it is canceled or absent from the terminal description.
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These null-terminated arrays contain .bP the short terminfo names (\*(``codes\*(''), .bP the termcap names (\*(``names\*('', and .bP the long terminfo names (\*(``fnames\*('')
for each of the predefined terminfo variables:
const char *boolnames[], *boolcodes[], *boolfnames[]
const char *numnames[], *numcodes[], *numfnames[]
const char *strnames[], *strcodes[], *strfnames[]
Routines that return pointers always return NULL on error.
X/Open defines no error conditions. In this implementation
5 del_curterm returns an error if its terminal parameter is null.
5 putp calls tputs, returning the same error-codes.
5 restartterm returns an error if the associated call to setupterm returns an error.
5 setupterm returns an error if it cannot allocate enough memory, or create the initial windows (stdscr, curscr, newscr). Other error conditions are documented above.
5 tputs returns an error if the string parameter is null. It does not detect I/O errors: X/Open states that tputs ignores the return value of the output function putc.
SVr2 introduced the terminfo feature. Its programming manual mentioned these low-level functions:
| Function Description |
| fixterm restore tty to \*(``in curses\*('' state |
| gettmode establish current tty modes |
| mvcur low level cursor motion |
| putp |
| utility function that uses tputs to send characters via putchar. |
| resetterm set tty modes to \*(``out of curses\*('' state |
| resetty reset tty flags to stored value |
| saveterm save current modes as \*(``in curses\*('' state |
| savetty store current tty flags |
| setterm establish terminal with given type |
| setupterm establish terminal with given type |
| tparm instantiate a string expression with parameters |
| tputs apply padding information to a string |
| vidattr like vidputs, but outputs through putchar |
| vidputs |
| output a string to put terminal in a specified video attribute mode |
The programming manual also mentioned functions provided for termcap compatibility (commenting that they \*(``may go away at a later date\*(''):
| Function Description |
| tgetent look up termcap entry for given name |
| tgetflag get boolean entry for given id |
| tgetnum get numeric entry for given id |
| tgetstr get string entry for given id |
| tgoto apply parameters to given capability |
| tputs |
| apply padding to capability, calling a function to put characters |
Early terminfo programs obtained capability values from the TERMINAL structure initialized by setupterm.
SVr3 extended terminfo by adding functions to retrieve capability values (like the termcap interface), and reusing tgoto and tputs:
| Function Description |
| tigetflag get boolean entry for given id |
| tigetnum get numeric entry for given id |
| tigetstr get string entry for given id |
SVr3 also replaced several of the SVr2 terminfo functions which had no counterpart in the termcap interface, documenting them as obsolete:
| Function Replaced by |
| crmode cbreak |
| fixterm reset_prog_mode |
| gettmode N/A |
| nocrmode nocbreak |
| resetterm reset_shell_mode |
| saveterm def_prog_mode |
| setterm setupterm |
SVr3 kept the mvcur, vidattr and vidputs functions, along with putp, tparm and tputs. The latter were needed to support padding, and handling functions such as vidattr (which used more than the two parameters supported by tgoto).
SVr3 introduced the functions for switching between terminal descriptions, e.g., set_curterm. The various global variables such as boolnames were mentioned in the programming manual at this point.
SVr4 added the vid_attr and vid_puts functions.
There are other low-level functions declared in the curses header files on Unix systems, but none were documented. The functions marked \*(``obsolete\*('' remained in use by the Unix vi editor.
X/Open notes that vidattr and vidputs may be macros.
The function setterm is not described by X/Open and must be considered non-portable. All other functions are as described by X/Open.
setupterm copies the terminal name to the array ttytype. This is not part of X/Open Curses, but is assumed by some applications.
Other implementions may not declare the capability name arrays. Some provide them without declaring them. X/Open does not specify them.
Extended terminal capability names, e.g., as defined by @TIC@ -x, are not stored in the arrays described here.
Older versions of ncurses assumed that the file descriptor passed to setupterm from initscr or newterm uses buffered I/O, and would write to the corresponding stream. In addition to the limitation that the terminal was left in block-buffered mode on exit (like System V curses), it was problematic because ncurses did not allow a reliable way to cleanup on receiving SIGTSTP.
The current version (ncurses6) uses output buffers managed directly by ncurses. Some of the low-level functions described in this manual page write to the standard output. They are not signal-safe. The high-level functions in ncurses use alternate versions of these functions using the more reliable buffering scheme.
The X/Open Curses prototypes are based on the SVr4 curses header declarations, which were defined at the same time the C language was first standardized in the late 1980s. .bP X/Open Curses uses const less effectively than a later design might, in some cases applying it needlessly to values are already constant, and in most cases overlooking parameters which normally would use const. Using constant parameters for functions which do not use const may prevent the program from compiling. On the other hand, writable strings are an obsolescent feature.
As an extension, this implementation can be configured to change the function prototypes to use the const keyword. The ncurses ABI 6 enables this feature by default. .bP X/Open Curses prototypes tparm with a fixed number of parameters, rather than a variable argument list. This implementation uses a variable argument list, but can be configured to use the fixed-parameter list. Portable applications should provide 9 parameters after the format; zeroes are fine for this purpose. In response to review comments by Thomas E. Dickey, X/Open Curses Issue 7 proposed the tiparm function in mid-2009.If configured to use the terminal-driver, e.g., for the MinGW port, .bP setupterm interprets a missing/empty TERM variable as the special value \*(``unknown\*(''. .bP setupterm allows explicit use of the the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to \*(``#win32con\*('' or an abbreviation of that string.
In System V Release 4, set_curterm has an int return type and returns OK or ERR. We have chosen to implement the X/Open Curses semantics.
In System V Release 4, the third argument of tputs has the type int (*putc)(char).
At least one implementation of X/Open Curses (Solaris) returns a value other than OK/ERR from tputs. That returns the length of the string, and does no error-checking.
X/Open notes that after calling mvcur, the curses state may not match the actual terminal state, and that an application should touch and refresh the window before resuming normal curses calls. Both ncurses and System V Release 4 curses implement mvcur using the SCREEN data allocated in either initscr or newterm. So though it is documented as a terminfo function, mvcur is really a curses function which is not well specified.
X/Open states that the old location must be given for mvcur. This implementation allows the caller to use -1's for the old ordinates. In that case, the old location is unknown.