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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);
       PAIR_NUMBER(attrs);

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.

   attrset
       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 standout 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 attributes.

       The  attrset  and related routines do not affect the attributes used when erasing portions
       of the window.  See bkgd(3NCURSES) for functions which  modify  the  attributes  used  for
       erasing and clearing.

   attr_set
       The  attrset routine is actually a legacy feature predating SVr4 curses but kept in X/Open
       Curses for the same reason that SVr4 curses kept it: compatibility.  The routine  attr_set
       provides for passing a color-pair parameter.

       The  remaining  attr_*  functions  operate exactly like the corresponding attr* functions,
       except that they take arguments of type attr_t rather than int.

   color_set
       The  routine  color_set  sets  the  current   color   of   the   given   window   to   the
       foreground/background  combination described by the color_pair_number.  The parameter opts
       is reserved for future use, applications must supply a null pointer.

   attr_get
       The routine wattr_get returns the current attribute and color pair for the  given  window;
       attr_get returns the current attribute and color pair for stdscr.

       There  is  no  corresponding  attrget  function as such in X/Open Curses, although ncurses
       provides getattrs (see curs_legacy(3X)).

   chgat
       The routine chgat changes the attributes of a given number of characters 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 color(3NCURSES)).  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'd  with  the  characters  passed  to  addch  (see
       addch(3NCURSES)).

              Name            Description
              ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
              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_ITALIC        Italics (non-X/Open extension)
              A_CHARTEXT      Bit-mask to extract a character
              COLOR_PAIR(n)   Color-pair number n

       These  video attributes are supported by attr_on and related functions (which also support
       the attributes recognized by attron, etc.):

              Name            Description
              ─────────────────────────────────────────
              WA_HORIZONTAL   Horizontal highlight
              WA_LEFT         Left highlight
              WA_LOW          Low highlight
              WA_RIGHT        Right highlight
              WA_TOP          Top highlight
              WA_VERTICAL     Vertical highlight

       For consistency

       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.

       COLOR_PAIR  values  can  only be OR'd with attributes if the pair number is less than 256.
       The alternate functions such as color_set can pass a color pair value directly.   However,
       ncurses  ABI  4  and  5 simply OR this value within the alternate functions.  You must use
       ncurses ABI 6 to support more than 256 color pairs.

PORTABILITY

       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,  A_BOLD, A_DIM,
       A_REVERSE, A_STANDOUT, or A_UNDERLINE is "unspecified".  Under this implementation as well
       as  SVr4  curses, these functions correctly manipulate all other highlights (specifically,
       A_ALTCHARSET, A_PROTECT, and A_INVIS).

       This  implementation  provides  the  A_ITALIC  attribute  for  terminals  which  have  the
       enter_italics_mode  (sitm)  and  exit_italics_mode  (ritm)  capabilities.  Italics are not
       mentioned in X/Open Curses.  Unlike the other video attributes, I_ITALIC is  unrelated  to
       the   set_attributes   capabilities.    This  implementation  makes  the  assumption  that
       exit_attribute_mode may also reset italics.

       XSI Curses added the new entry points, attr_get, attr_on,  attr_off,  attr_set,  wattr_on,
       wattr_off,  wattr_get,  wattr_set.   These  are  intended  to  work  with  a new series of
       highlight macros prefixed with WA_.  The older macros  have  direct  counterparts  in  the
       newer set of names:

              Name            Description
              ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
              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

       Very  old versions of this library did not force an update of the screen when changing the
       attributes.  Use touchwin to force the screen to match the updated attributes.

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

       The  XSI  standard  extended  conformance  level adds new highlights A_HORIZONTAL, A_LEFT,
       A_LOW, A_RIGHT, A_TOP, A_VERTICAL (and corresponding WA_ macros for each).  As  of  August
       2013, no known terminal provides these highlights (i.e., via the sgr1 capability).

RETURN VALUE

       All routines return the integer OK on success, or ERR on failure.

       X/Open does not define any error conditions.

       This  implementation  returns  an  error  if  the  window pointer is null.  The wcolor_set
       function  returns  an  error  if  the  color  pair  parameter   is   outside   the   range
       0..COLOR_PAIRS-1.  This implementation also provides getattrs for compatibility with older
       versions of curses.

       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.

SEE ALSO

       ncurses(3NCURSES), addch(3NCURSES), addstr(3NCURSES), bkgd(3NCURSES), printw(3NCURSES),
       curses_variables(3NCURSES)

                                                                                   attr(3NCURSES)