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Thomas E. Dickey f344f8539c ncurses 6.0 - patch 20170114
+ improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs.
+ clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is
  available only when ncurses is configured for tracing.
+ amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard
  error after initializing the trace feature using the environment
  variable.
2017-01-15 01:42:56 +00:00

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<H1 class="no-header">curs_trace 3x</H1>
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<STRONG><A HREF="curs_trace.3x.html">curs_trace(3x)</A></STRONG> <STRONG><A HREF="curs_trace.3x.html">curs_trace(3x)</A></STRONG>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>trace</STRONG>, <STRONG>_tracef</STRONG>, <STRONG>_traceattr</STRONG>, <STRONG>_traceattr2</STRONG>, <STRONG>_tracecchar_t</STRONG>,
<STRONG>_tracecchar_t2</STRONG>, <STRONG>_tracechar</STRONG>, <STRONG>_tracechtype</STRONG>, <STRONG>_tracechtype2</STRONG>,
<STRONG>_nc_tracebits</STRONG>, <STRONG>_tracedump</STRONG>, <STRONG>_tracemouse</STRONG> - <STRONG>curses</STRONG> debugging
routines
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG>
<STRONG>void</STRONG> <STRONG>trace(const</STRONG> <STRONG>unsigned</STRONG> <STRONG>int</STRONG> <EM>param</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
<STRONG>void</STRONG> <STRONG>_tracef(const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>format</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>...);</STRONG>
<STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_traceattr(attr_t</STRONG> <EM>attr</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
<STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_traceattr2(int</STRONG> <EM>buffer</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
<STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_tracecchar_t(const</STRONG> <STRONG>cchar_t</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>string</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
<STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_tracecchar_t2(int</STRONG> <EM>buffer</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>const</STRONG> <STRONG>cchar_t</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>string</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
<STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_tracechar(int</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
<STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_tracechtype(chtype</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
<STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_tracechtype2(int</STRONG> <EM>buffer</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>chtype</STRONG> <EM>ch</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
<STRONG>void</STRONG> <STRONG>_tracedump(const</STRONG> <STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>label</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>WINDOW</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
<STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_nc_tracebits(void);</STRONG>
<STRONG>char</STRONG> <STRONG>*_tracemouse(const</STRONG> <STRONG>MEVENT</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>event</EM><STRONG>);</STRONG>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
The <STRONG>trace</STRONG> routines are used for debugging the ncurses li-
braries, as well as applications which use the ncurses li-
braries. These functions are normally available only with
the debugging library e.g., <EM>libncurses</EM><STRONG>_</STRONG><EM>g.a</EM>, but may be
compiled into any model (shared, static, profile) by
defining the symbol <STRONG>TRACE</STRONG>. Additionally, some functions
are only available with the wide-character configuration
of the libraries.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Functions">Functions</a></H3><PRE>
The principal parts of this interface are
<STRONG>o</STRONG> <STRONG>trace</STRONG>, which selectively enables different tracing
features, and
<STRONG>o</STRONG> <STRONG>_tracef</STRONG>, which writes formatted data to the <EM>trace</EM>
file.
Calling <STRONG>trace</STRONG> with a nonzero parameter creates the file
<STRONG>trace</STRONG> in the current directory for output. If the file
already exists, no tracing is done.
The other functions either return a pointer to a string-
area (allocated by the corresponding function), or return
no value (such as <STRONG>_tracedump</STRONG>, which implements the screen
dump for <STRONG>TRACE_UPDATE</STRONG>). The caller should not free these
strings, since the allocation is reused on successive
calls. To work around the problem of a single string-area
per function, some use a buffer-number parameter, telling
the library to allocate additional string-areas.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Trace-Parameter">Trace Parameter</a></H3><PRE>
The trace parameter is formed by OR'ing values from the
list of <STRONG>TRACE_</STRONG><EM>xxx</EM> definitions in <STRONG>&lt;curses.h&gt;</STRONG>. These in-
clude:
<STRONG>TRACE_DISABLE</STRONG>
turn off tracing by passing a zero parameter.
The library flushes the output file, but retains an
open file-descriptor to the trace file so that it can
resume tracing later if a nonzero parameter is passed
to the <STRONG>trace</STRONG> function.
<STRONG>TRACE_TIMES</STRONG>
trace user and system times of updates.
<STRONG>TRACE_TPUTS</STRONG>
trace <STRONG><A HREF="curs_terminfo.3x.html">tputs(3x)</A></STRONG> calls.
<STRONG>TRACE_UPDATE</STRONG>
trace update actions, old &amp; new screens.
<STRONG>TRACE_MOVE</STRONG>
trace cursor movement and scrolling.
<STRONG>TRACE_CHARPUT</STRONG>
trace all character outputs.
<STRONG>TRACE_ORDINARY</STRONG>
trace all update actions. The old and new screen
contents are written to the trace file for each re-
fresh.
<STRONG>TRACE_CALLS</STRONG>
trace all curses calls. The parameters for each call
are traced, as well as return values.
<STRONG>TRACE_VIRTPUT</STRONG>
trace virtual character puts, i.e., calls to <STRONG>addch</STRONG>.
<STRONG>TRACE_IEVENT</STRONG>
trace low-level input processing, including timeouts.
<STRONG>TRACE_BITS</STRONG>
trace state of TTY control bits.
<STRONG>TRACE_ICALLS</STRONG>
trace internal/nested calls.
<STRONG>TRACE_CCALLS</STRONG>
trace per-character calls.
<STRONG>TRACE_DATABASE</STRONG>
trace read/write of terminfo/termcap data.
<STRONG>TRACE_ATTRS</STRONG>
trace changes to video attributes and colors.
<STRONG>TRACE_MAXIMUM</STRONG>
maximum trace level, enables all of the separate
trace features.
Some tracing features are enabled whenever the <STRONG>trace</STRONG> pa-
rameter is nonzero. Some features overlap. The specific
names are used as a guideline.
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Initialization">Initialization</a></H3><PRE>
These functions check the <STRONG>NCURSES_TRACE</STRONG> environment vari-
able, to set the tracing feature as if <STRONG>trace</STRONG> was called:
filter, initscr, new_prescr, newterm, nofilter,
restartterm, ripoffline, setupterm, slk_init, tgetent,
use_env, use_extended_names, use_tioctl
</PRE><H3><a name="h3-Command-line-Utilities">Command-line Utilities</a></H3><PRE>
The command-line utilities such as <STRONG><A HREF="tic.1m.html">tic(1)</A></STRONG> provide a ver-
bose option which extends the set of messages written us-
ing the <STRONG>trace</STRONG> function. Both of these (<STRONG>-v</STRONG> and <STRONG>trace</STRONG>) use
the same variable (<STRONG>_nc_tracing</STRONG>), which determines the mes-
sages which are written.
Because the command-line utilities may call initialization
functions such as <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG>, <STRONG>tgetent</STRONG> or <STRONG>use_extend-</STRONG>
<STRONG>ed_names</STRONG>, some of their debugging output may be directed
to the <EM>trace</EM> file if the <STRONG>NCURSES_TRACE</STRONG> environment vari-
able is set:
<STRONG>o</STRONG> messages produced in the utility are written to the
standard error.
<STRONG>o</STRONG> messages produced by the underlying library are writ-
ten to <EM>trace</EM>.
If ncurses is built without tracing, none of the latter
are produced, and fewer diagnostics are provided by the
command-line utilities.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
Routines which return a value are designed to be used as
parameters to the <STRONG>_tracef</STRONG> routine.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
These functions are not part of the XSI interface. Some
other curses implementations are known to have similar,
undocumented features, but they are not compatible with
ncurses.
A few functions are not provided when symbol versioning is
used:
_nc_tracebits, _tracedump, _tracemouse
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>.
<STRONG><A HREF="curs_trace.3x.html">curs_trace(3x)</A></STRONG>
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