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/* Information about terminal capabilities.
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2006.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
#ifndef _TERMCAP_H
#define _TERMCAP_H
/* Including <curses.h> or <term.h> is dangerous, because it also declares
a lot of junk, such as variables PC, UP, and other. */
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
#if HAVE_TERMCAP
/* Gets the capability information for terminal type TYPE.
Returns 1 if successful, 0 if TYPE is unknown, -1 on other error. */
extern int tgetent (char *bp, const char *type);
/* Retrieves the value of a numerical capability.
Returns -1 if it is not available. */
extern int tgetnum (const char *id);
/* Retrieves the value of a boolean capability.
Returns 1 if it available, 0 otherwise. */
extern int tgetflag (const char *id);
/* Retrieves the value of a string capability.
Returns NULL if it is not available.
Also, if AREA != NULL, stores it at *AREA and advances *AREA. */
extern const char * tgetstr (const char *id, char **area);
#endif
#if HAVE_TERMINFO
/* Gets the capability information for terminal type TYPE and prepares FD.
Returns 0 if successful, -1 upon error. If ERRP is non-NULL, also returns
an error indicator in *ERRP; otherwise an error is signalled. */
extern int setupterm (const char *type, int fd, int *errp);
/* Retrieves the value of a numerical capability.
Returns -1 if it is not available, -2 if ID is invalid. */
extern int tigetnum (const char *id);
/* Retrieves the value of a boolean capability.
Returns 1 if it available, 0 if not available, -1 if ID is invalid. */
extern int tigetflag (const char *id);
/* Retrieves the value of a string capability.
Returns NULL if it is not available, (char *)(-1) if ID is invalid. */
extern const char * tigetstr (const char *id);
#endif
#if HAVE_TPARAM
/* API provided by GNU termcap in <termcap.h>. */
/* Instantiates a string capability with format strings.
BUF must be a buffer having room for BUFSIZE bytes.
The return value is either equal to BUF or freshly malloc()ed. */
extern char * tparam (const char *str, void *buf, int bufsize, ...);
#else
/* API provided by
- GNU ncurses in <term.h>, <curses.h>, <ncurses.h>,
- OSF/1 curses in <term.h>, <curses.h>,
- Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX curses in <term.h>,
- gnulib's replacement. */
/* Instantiates a string capability with format strings.
The return value is statically allocated and must not be freed. */
extern char * tparm (const char *str, ...);
#endif
#if HAVE_TERMCAP || HAVE_TERMINFO
/* Retrieves a string that causes cursor positioning to (column, row).
This function is necessary because the string returned by tgetstr ("cm")
is in a special format. */
extern const char * tgoto (const char *cm, int column, int row);
#endif
/* Retrieves the value of a string capability.
OUTCHARFUN is called in turn for each 'char' of the result.
This function is necessary because string capabilities can contain
padding commands. */
extern void tputs (const char *cp, int affcnt, int (*outcharfun) (int));
/* The ncurses functions for color handling (see ncurses/base/lib_color.c)
are overkill: Most terminal emulators support only a fixed, small number
of colors. */
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#endif /* _TERMCAP_H */