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Asked: 2026-05-20T17:42:40+00:00

How to get the sign on X, Y in console. Example mvprintw(1,2,H). and SOME_FUNCTION_I_AM_LOOKING_FOR(1,2)

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How to get the sign on X, Y in console.

Example mvprintw(1,2,”H”).
and SOME_FUNCTION_I_AM_LOOKING_FOR(1,2) -> return “h”.

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  1. Editorial Team

    chtype mvinch(int y, int x) comes to mind.

    From man 3NCURSES inch:

    SYNOPSIS

       #include <curses.h>

   chtype inch(void);
   chtype winch(WINDOW *win);
   chtype mvinch(int y, int x);
   chtype mvwinch(WINDOW *win, int y, int x);

    DESCRIPTION

    These routines return the character, of type chtype, at the
    current position in the named window.
    If any attributes are set for that
    position, their values are OR’ed into the value returned.
    Constants defined in can be
    used with the & (logical AND) opera‐
    tor to extract the character or attributes alone.

    Attributes

    The following bit-masks may be AND-ed with characters returned by
    winch.

       A_CHARTEXT     Bit-mask to extract character
   A_ATTRIBUTES   Bit-mask to extract attributes
   A_COLOR        Bit-mask to extract color-pair field information
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