Interface Overview

• Components
• Relationship to the XBD Specification
• Relationship to Signals
• Screens, Windows and Terminals
• Screen
• Windows
• Subwindows
• Ancestors
• Derived Windows
• Pads
• Terminal
• Characters
• Character Storage Size
• Multi-column Characters
• Attributes
• Rendition
• Non-spacing Characters
• Complex Characters
• Window Properties
• Window Rendition
• Window Background
• Conceptual Operations
• Screen Addressing
• Basic Character Operations
• Adding (Overwriting)
• Truncation, Wrapping and Scrolling
• Insertion
• Deletion
• Window Operations
• Characters that Straddle the Subwindow Border
• Special Characters
• Control Characters
• Rendition of Characters Placed into a Window
• Input Processing
• Keypad Processing
• Input Mode
• Delay Mode
• Echo Processing
• The Set of Curses Functions
• Function Name Conventions
• Function Families Provided
• Legend
• Interfaces Implemented as Macros
• Initialised Curses Environment
• Synchronous and Networked Asynchronous Terminals
• Output
• Input