Re: Reading characters from WIN*; saving and restoring window cursor

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jul 26), Walter Briscoe said:
> I have an application running on an AIX curses port with which I am
> not quite happy. I would like to read the character and attributes at
> an arbitrary position in a window. To me, it seems perverse to
> duplicate the information in the window by holding a copy of it in my
> own code.
> 
> mvwinch(win, y, x) gives me that information at the cost of changing the
> cursor position.

You can use the getyx() macro to get the current cursor position.

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        Dan Nelson
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