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When <EM>wch</EM> is not a null pointer, the <STRONG>getcchar</STRONG> function does the following: - Extracts information from a <STRONG>cchar_t</STRONG> value <EM>wcval</EM> - Stores the character attributes in the location pointed to by <EM>attrs</EM> - Stores the color-pair in the location pointed to by <EM>color</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>pair</EM> - Stores the wide-character string, characters refer- enced by <EM>wcval</EM>, into the array pointed to by <EM>wch</EM>. When <EM>wch</EM> is a null pointer, the <STRONG>getcchar</STRONG> function does the following: - Obtains the number of wide characters pointed to by <EM>wcval</EM> - Does not change the data referenced by <EM>attrs</EM> or <EM>color</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>pair</EM> The <STRONG>setcchar</STRONG> function initializes the location pointed to by <EM>wcval</EM> by using: - The character attributes in <EM>attrs</EM> - The color pair in <EM>color</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>pair</EM> - The wide-character string pointed to by <EM>wch</EM>. The string must be L'\0' terminated, contain at most one character with strictly positive width, which must be the first, and contain no characters of negative width. </PRE> <H2>NOTES</H2><PRE> The <EM>opts</EM> argument is reserved for future use. Currently, an application must provide a null pointer as <EM>opts</EM>. The <EM>wcval</EM> argument may be a value generated by a call to <STRONG>setcchar</STRONG> or by a function that has a <STRONG>cchar_t</STRONG> output argu- ment. If <EM>wcval</EM> is constructed by any other means, the effect is unspecified. </PRE> <H2>RETURN VALUES</H2><PRE> When <EM>wch</EM> is a null pointer, <STRONG>getcchar</STRONG> returns the number of wide characters referenced by <EM>wcval</EM>, including the null terminator. When <EM>wch</EM> is not a null pointer, <STRONG>getcchar</STRONG> returns <STRONG>OK</STRONG> upon successful completion, and <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> otherwise. Upon successful completion, <STRONG>setcchar</STRONG> returns <STRONG>OK</STRONG>. Other- wise, it returns <STRONG>ERR</STRONG>. </PRE> <H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE> Functions: <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="wcwidth.3x.html">wcwidth(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_attr_get.3x.html">curs_attr_get(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="can_change_color.3x.html">can_change_color(3x)</A></STRONG>. </PRE> <HR> <ADDRESS> Man(1) output converted with <a href="http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/man2html.html">man2html</a> </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>