termcap
NAMESYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
BUGS
PORTABILITY
SEE ALSO
NAME
PC, UP, BC, ospeed, tgetent, tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tgoto, tputs − direct curses interface to the terminfo capability database
SYNOPSIS
#include
<ncurses/curses.h>
#include <term.h>
extern char
PC;
extern char * UP;
extern char * BC;
extern speed_t ospeed;
int
tgetent(char *bp, const char *name);
int tgetflag(char *id);
int tgetnum(char *id);
char *tgetstr(char *id, char **area);
char *tgoto(const char *cap, int col, int row);
int tputs(const char *str, int affcnt, int
(*putc)(int));
DESCRIPTION
These routines are included as a conversion aid for programs that use the termcap library. Their parameters are the same and the routines are emulated using the terminfo database. Thus, they can only be used to query the capabilities of entries for which a terminfo entry has been compiled.
INITIALIZATION
The tgetent routine loads the entry for name.
It returns:
1 |
on success, | ||
0 |
if there is no such entry (or that it is a generic type, having too little information for curses applications to run), and | ||
−1 |
if the terminfo database could not be found. |
This differs from the termcap library in two ways:
• |
The emulation ignores the buffer pointer bp. The termcap library would store a copy of the terminal description in the area referenced by this pointer. However, ncurses stores its terminal descriptions in compiled binary form, which is not the same thing. | ||
• |
There is a difference in return codes. The termcap library does not check if the terminal description is marked with the generic capability, or if the terminal description has cursor-addressing. |
CAPABILITY
VALUES
The tgetflag routine gets the boolean entry for
id, or zero if it is not available.
The tgetnum routine gets the numeric entry for id, or −1 if it is not available.
The tgetstr routine returns the string entry for id, or zero if it is not available. Use tputs to output the returned string. The return value will also be copied to the buffer pointed to by area, and the area value will be updated to point past the null ending this value.
Only the first two characters of the id parameter of tgetflag, tgetnum and tgetstr are compared in lookups.
FORMATTING
CAPABILITIES
The tgoto routine instantiates the parameters into
the given capability. The output from this routine is to be
passed to tputs.
The tputs routine is described on the terminfo(3NCURSES) manual page. It can retrieve capabilities by either termcap or terminfo name.
GLOBAL
VARIABLES
The variables PC, UP and BC are set by
tgetent to the terminfo entry’s data for
pad_char, cursor_up and
backspace_if_not_bs, respectively. UP is not
used by ncurses. PC is used in the
tdelay_output function. BC is used in the
tgoto emulation. The variable ospeed is set by
ncurses in a system-specific coding to reflect the terminal
speed.
RETURN VALUE
Except where explicitly noted, routines that return an integer return ERR upon failure and OK (SVr4 only specifies "an integer value other than ERR") upon successful completion.
Routines that return pointers return NULL on error.
BUGS
If you call tgetstr to fetch ca or any other parameterized string, be aware that it will be returned in terminfo notation, not the older and not-quite-compatible termcap notation. This will not cause problems if all you do with it is call tgoto or tparm, which both expand terminfo-style strings as terminfo. (The tgoto function, if configured to support termcap, will check if the string is indeed terminfo-style by looking for "%p" parameters or "$<..>" delays, and invoke a termcap-style parser if the string does not appear to be terminfo).
Because terminfo conventions for representing padding in string capabilities differ from termcap’s, tputs("50"); will put out a literal "50" rather than busy-waiting for 50 milliseconds. Cope with it.
Note that termcap has nothing analogous to terminfo’s sgr string. One consequence of this is that termcap applications assume me (terminfo sgr0) does not reset the alternate character set. This implementation checks for, and modifies the data shown to the termcap interface to accommodate termcap’s limitation in this respect.
PORTABILITY
The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these functions. However, they are marked TO BE WITHDRAWN and may be removed in future versions.
Neither the XSI Curses standard nor the SVr4 man pages documented the return values of tgetent correctly, though all three were in fact returned ever since SVr1. In particular, an omission in the XSI Curses documentation has been misinterpreted to mean that tgetent returns OK or ERR. Because the purpose of these functions is to provide compatibility with the termcap library, that is a defect in XCurses, Issue 4, Version 2 rather than in ncurses.
External variables are provided for support of certain termcap applications. However, termcap applications’ use of those variables is poorly documented, e.g., not distinguishing between input and output. In particular, some applications are reported to declare and/or modify ospeed.
The comment that only the first two characters of the id parameter are used escapes many application developers. The original BSD 4.2 termcap library (and historical relics thereof) did not require a trailing null NUL on the parameter name passed to tgetstr, tgetnum and tgetflag. Some applications assume that the termcap interface does not require the trailing NUL for the parameter name. Taking into account these issues:
• |
As a special case, tgetflag matched against a single-character identifier provided that was at the end of the terminal description. You should not rely upon this behavior in portable programs. This implementation disallows matches against single-character capability names. | ||
• |
This implementation disallows matches by the termcap interface against extended capability names which are longer than two characters. |
SEE ALSO
ncurses(3NCURSES), terminfo(5), terminfo_variables(3NCURSES), putc(3).
http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/tctest.html
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