Re: print array of characters & attributes?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Folkert van Heusden wrote:

> > > Could not find so: does ncurses has a function which has as input some
> > > kind of array of characters to display and for each character also its
> > > attributes?
> > perhaps waddchnstr()
>
> Ok it seems waddchnstr(win, &bla, 1); is faster (60%) then waddch(win,
> '.') so I think building a string into a buffer of chtype and then
> putting it on the display with waddchnstr might help.
> Can I just do:
>
>         chtype var = 'a';
> to set a character
>
>         var |= A_REVERSE
> to set an attribute type
>
>         var |= COLOR_PAIR(1)
> to set a color?

yes - for the chtype interface.
That doesn't apply to the cchar_t interface (I mentioned both in my 
reply).

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