NAME

       inch, winch, mvinch, mvwinch - get a character and attributes from a curses window

SYNOPSIS

       #include <curses.h>

       chtype inch(void);
       chtype winch(WINDOW *win);
       chtype mvinch(int y, int x);
       chtype mvwinch(WINDOW *win, int y, int x);

DESCRIPTION

       These routines return the character, of type chtype, at the current position in the named window.  If any
       attributes are set for that position, their values are OR'ed into the value returned.  Constants  defined
       in <curses.h> can be used with the & (logical AND) operator to extract the character or attributes alone.

   Attributes
       The following bit-masks may be AND-ed with characters returned by winch.

       A_CHARTEXT     Bit-mask to extract character
       A_ATTRIBUTES   Bit-mask to extract attributes
       A_COLOR        Bit-mask to extract color-pair field information

RETURN VALUE

       Functions  with  a  "mv"  prefix  first perform a cursor movement using wmove, and return an error if the
       position is outside the window, or if the window pointer is null.

NOTES

       Note that all of these routines may be macros.

PORTABILITY

       These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard, Issue 4.

SEE ALSO

       ncurses(3NCURSES).

       Comparable functions in the wide-character (ncursesw) library are described in in_wch(3NCURSES).

                                                                                                  inch(3NCURSES)