Traits

Functions

COLOR_PAIR
cbreak	Set cbreak mode.
curs_set	Alters the appearance of the cursor.
delwin	Deletes the window, freeing all associated memory. In the case of overlapping windows, subwindows should be deleted before the main window.
endwin	Should be called before exiting or escaping from curses mode temporarily.
flushinp	Throws away any type-ahead that has been typed by the user and has not yet been read by the program.
half_delay	Similar to cbreak(), but allows for a time limit to be specified, in tenths of a second.
has_colors	Indicates if the terminal supports, and can maniplulate color.
init_pair	Changes the definition of a color-pair.
initscr	Initialize the curses system, this must be the first function that is called.
napms	Suspends the program for the specified number of milliseconds.
newwin	Creates a new window with the given number of lines, nlines and columns, ncols.
nl	Enables the translation of a carriage return into a newline on input.
nocbreak	Set nocbreak mode.
noecho	Disables echoing typed characters.
resize_term	Attempts to resize the screen to the given size.
start_color	Initializes eight basic colors (black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, and white), and two global variables; COLORS and COLOR_PAIRS (respectively defining the maximum number of colors and color-pairs the terminal is capable of displaying).
use_default_colors	Allows the use of -1 as a foreground or background color with init_pair().