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curs_inwstr(3X)			 Library calls		       curs_inwstr(3X)

NAME
       inwstr,	innwstr,  winwstr,  winnwstr,  mvinwstr, mvinnwstr, mvwinwstr,
       mvwinnwstr - get	a wide-character string	from a curses window

SYNOPSIS
       #include	<curses.h>

       int inwstr(wchar_t *wstr);
       int innwstr(wchar_t *wstr, int n);
       int winwstr(WINDOW *win,	wchar_t	*wstr);
       int winnwstr(WINDOW *win, wchar_t *wstr,	int n);

       int mvinwstr(int	y, int x, wchar_t *wstr);
       int mvinnwstr(int y, int	x, wchar_t *wstr, int n);
       int mvwinwstr(WINDOW *win, int y, int x,	wchar_t	*wstr);
       int mvwinnwstr(WINDOW *win, int y, int x, wchar_t *wstr,	int n);

DESCRIPTION
       These routines return a string of  wchar_t  wide	 characters  in	 wstr,
       starting	at the current cursor position in the named window.

       The  four  functions  with n as the last	argument return	a leading sub-
       string at most n	characters  long  (exclusive  of  the  trailing	 NUL).
       Transfer	 stops	at  the	 end of	the current line, or when n characters
       have been stored	at the location	referenced by wstr.

       If the size n is	not large enough to store a complete  complex  charac-
       ter, an error is	generated.

RETURN VALUE
       All  routines return ERR	upon failure.  Upon successful completion, the
       *inwstr routines	return OK, and the *innwstr routines return the	number
       of characters read into the string.

       X/Open defines no error conditions.  This implementation	returns	an er-
       ror

          if the win parameter	is null	or

          if the wstr parameter is null, or

          if no characters could be read.

       Functions prefixed with "mv" first perform cursor movement and fail  if
       the position (y,	x) is outside the window boundaries.

NOTES
       All routines except winnwstr may	be macros.

       Each  cell in the window	holds a	complex	character (a spacing character
       and zero	or more	non-spacing characters)	together with  attributes  and
       color.	These  functions  store	only the wide characters, ignoring at-
       tributes	and color.  Use	in_wchstr to  return  the  complex  characters
       from a window.

       Reading a line that overflows the array pointed to by wstr with inwstr,
       mvinwstr,  mvwinwstr  or	 winwstr causes	undefined results.  Therefore,
       the use of innwstr, mvinnwstr, mvwinnwstr, or winnwstr is recommended.

PORTABILITY
       These functions are described in	X/Open Curses, Issue 4.

SEE ALSO
       curses(3X),    curs_inch(3X),	 curs_inchstr(3X),     curs_instr(3X),
       curs_in_wchstr(3X)

ncurses	6.5			  2024-04-20		       curs_inwstr(3X)

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | NOTES | PORTABILITY | SEE ALSO

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