Re: ncurses specification

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Stuart Anderson wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 
> > > Are we referencing the write specification?   Are we using the write 
> > > APIs?   Are
> > > we missing any APIs?
> > 
> > don't know (it seems to have ncurses's extensions through 5.2)
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> We've got the following interface included in our list for ncurses, but they
> don't seem to actually be found in the library. These may have gotten included
> via a header file, or an older version of the library. Can you confirm wether
> or not these should be included as part of the ncurses API?

the quick place to check is in curses.h (comments show some missing).

>   
> Checking symbols in /lib/libncurses.so.5
> Didn't find slk_attr_off in libncurses.so.5
> Didn't find slk_attr_on in libncurses.so.5

slk_attr_off/slk_attr_on are wide-character variants of
slk_attroff/slk_attron, respectively.  Normally they are macros
but if ncurses is configured/compiled for wide-characters, there
is also a stub function.

> Didn't find term_attrs in libncurses.so.5

missing.

> Didn't find trace in libncurses.so.5

with 5.1, I made trace optional (it's part of the debug library).
normally you won't see it.

> Didn't find vid_attr in libncurses.so.5

like slk_attr_off, etc, it's a wide-character variant normally
implemented as a macro.

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