NAME

       cdk_misc - Curses Development Kit Miscellaneous Routines

SYNOPSIS

       cc [ flag ... ] file ...  -lcdk [ library ... ]

       #include <cdk.h>

       void Beep(void);

       unsigned CDKallocStrings(
                      char ***list/,
                      char *item/,
                      unsigned length/,
                      unsigned used/);

       unsigned CDKcountStrings (
                      CDK_CONST char **list);

       void CDKfreeChtypes(
                      chtype **list);

       void CDKfreeStrings (
                      char **list);

       char ** CDKsplitString (
                      const char *string,
                      int splitChar);

       char * baseName (
                      char *string);

       int ceilCDK(   doublevalue);

       int chlen (    const chtype *string);

       void chstrncpy(
                      char *dest,
                      const chtype *src,
                      int maxcount);

       char *chtype2Char (
                      const chtype *string);

       void cleanChar (
                      char *string,
                      int length,
                      char character);

       void cleanChtype (
                      chtype *string,
                      int length,
                      chtype character);

       int cmpStrChstr(
                      const char *str,
                      const chtype *chstr);

       char *copyChar (
                      const char *string);

       char **copyCharList (
                      const char **list);

       chtype *copyChtype (
                      const chtype *string);

       chtype **copyChtypeList (
                      const chtype **list);

       char *dirName (
                      char *filename);

       int floorCDK(  double value);

       void freeChar (
                      char *string);

       void freeCharList (
                      char **list,
                      unsigned size);

       void freeChtype (
                      chtype *string);

       void freeChtypeList ("
                      chtype **list,
                      unsigned size);

       int intlen (   int value);

       int lenCharList (
                      const char **list);

       int lenChtypeList (
                      const chtype **list);

       int mode2Char (
                      char *string,
                      mode_t fileMode);

       int searchList (
                      CDK_CONST char * CDK_CONST *list,
                      int listSize,
                      const char *pattern);

       void sortList (
                      CDK_CONST char **list,
                      int length);

DESCRIPTION

       These are miscellaneous functions which may be useful with the Cdk widget set.

AVAILABLE FUNCTIONS

       Beep makes  an  audible beep.  The standard curses beep() does not flush the stream, so it will only beep
            until a force is made.  This forces a flush after issuing the beep command.

       CDKallocStrings
            Add a new string item to a list.  Keep a null pointer on the end so one may use CDKfreeStrings()  to
            deallocate  the  whole  list.   The  caller is responsible for updating the length of the list.  The
            return value is the updated number of chars used.

       CDKcountStrings
            Count the number of items in a null-terminated list of character strings.  Return the count.

       CDKfreeChtypes
            Free a list of chtype-strings which is terminated by a null pointer.

       CDKfreeStrings
            Free a list of character strings which is terminated by a null pointer.  Also free list itself.

       CDKsplitString
            split the string at each occurrence of separator, returning a pointer  to  a  dynamically  allocated
            array  of the pieces.  The original string is unmodified.  The caller is responsible for freeing the
            result.

       baseName
            returns a pointer to the first character of the filename in the given pathname.  The  result  should
            be freed by the caller.

       ceilCDK
            Return an integer like the math library ceil(), which returns a double.

       chlen
            returns the length of the (null-terminated) string of chtype's.

       chstrncpy
            Extract  the  characters  from a null-terminated array of chtype's src.  The size of the destination
            dest is given in maxcount.

       chtype2Char
            Extract the characters from a null-terminated array of chtype's  string.   A  dynamically  allocated
            string is returned.  The caller is responsible for freeing the result.

       cleanChar
            is  analogous to memset.  Set the characters in string to the given character.  The length of string
            is given by length.  character which will be written.

       cleanChtype
            is analogous to memset.  Set the chtype's in string to the given character.  The length of string is
            given by length.

       cmpStrChstr
            Compare  a  char string str to a chtype string chstr.  Return -1, 0 or 1 according to whether str is
            less than, equal to to greater than chstr.

       copyChar
            copies the string passed in.  Unlike strdup this checks to see if the string is NULL before copying.

       copyCharList
            copies the given list.

       copyChtype
            function copies the string passed in, analogous to copyChar, but for chtype strings.

       copyChtypeList
            copies the given list.

       dirName
            Returns the directory for the given filename, i.e., the part before the * last  slash.   The  return
            value should be freed by the caller.

       floorCDK
            Return an integer like the math function floor(), which returns a double.

       freeChar
            is a wrapper for free.  It checks to see if the string is NULL before trying to free the string.

       freeCharList
            Free the memory used by the given list of strings.  The number of strings to free is given by size.

       freeChtype
            is a wrapper for free, like freeChar.

       freeChtypeList
            Free the memory used by the given list of chtype strings.  The number of strings to free is given by
            size.

       intlen
            returns the length of an integer, i.e., the number of characters needed to represent it.

       lenCharList
            returns the length of the given list.

       lenChtypeList
            returns the length of the given list.

       mode2Char
            Given a file protection mode fileMode, store a printable  version  of  the  permissions  in  string,
            formatted  as  if  by "ls -l").  Return the corresponding permissions data, i.e., ignoring the file-
            type bits.

       searchList
            Search the given list of listSize strings for a subset of a word pattern in the given list.   Return
            the index in the list if it is found, or -1 if not found.

       sortList
            performs  a  quick  sort  of  the given list.  This is a wrapper for qsort, used to sort the list of
            strings.  The number of strings in list is given by length.  The list is  sorted  alphabetically  in
            increasing order.

SEE ALSO

       cdk(3), cdk_screen(3), cdk_display(3), cdk_binding(3), cdk_util(3)

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