notcurses/doc/man/man3/notcurses_cell.3.md
nick black 6fb5c1e512 Fill out some API holes, improve some comments
- Disambiguate the docs for ncplane_erase()
- Add ncpile_top(), ncpile_bottom()
- Refuse attempts to modify the standard plane's resizecb
- Copy alignment and resizecb in ncplane_dup()
- Add cell_load_egc32()
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% notcurses_cell(3)
% nick black <nickblack@linux.com>
% v2.0.9
# NAME
notcurses_cell - operations on notcurses cells
# SYNOPSIS
**#include <notcurses/notcurses.h>**
```c
// See DESCRIPTION below for information on EGC encoding
typedef struct cell {
uint32_t gcluster; // 4B → 4B
uint8_t gcluster_backstop; // 1B → 5B (8 bits of zero)
uint8_t reserved; // 1B → 6B (8 reserved bits, ought be zero)
uint16_t stylemask; // 2B → 8B (16 bits of NCSTYLE_* attributes)
uint64_t channels;
} cell;
#define CELL_TRIVIAL_INITIALIZER \
{ .gcluster = '\0', .stylemask = 0, .channels = 0, }
#define CELL_SIMPLE_INITIALIZER(c) \
{ .gcluster = (c), .stylemask = 0, .channels = 0, }
#define CELL_INITIALIZER(c, s, chan) \
{ .gcluster = (c), .stylemask = (s), .channels = (chan), }
#define CELL_WIDEASIAN_MASK 0x8000000080000000ull
#define CELL_BGDEFAULT_MASK 0x0000000040000000ull
#define CELL_FGDEFAULT_MASK (CELL_BGDEFAULT_MASK << 32u)
#define CELL_BG_RGB_MASK 0x0000000000ffffffull
#define CELL_FG_RGB_MASK (CELL_BG_MASK << 32u)
#define CELL_BG_PALETTE 0x0000000008000000ull
#define CELL_FG_PALETTE (CELL_BG_PALETTE << 32u)
#define CHANNEL_ALPHA_MASK 0x30000000ull
#define CELL_ALPHA_HIGHCONTRAST 0x30000000ull
#define CELL_ALPHA_TRANSPARENT 0x2.0.9000ull
#define CELL_ALPHA_BLEND 0x10000000ull
#define CELL_ALPHA_OPAQUE 0x00000000ull
```
**void cell_init(cell* ***c***);**
**int cell_load(struct ncplane* ***n***, cell* ***c***, const char* ***gcluster***);**
**int cell_prime(struct ncplane* ***n***, cell* ***c***, const char* ***gcluster***,
uint32_t ***stylemask***, uint64_t ***channels***);**
**int cell_duplicate(struct ncplane* ***n***, cell* ***targ***, const cell* ***c***);**
**void cell_release(struct ncplane* ***n***, cell* ***c***);**
**void cell_styles_set(cell* ***c***, unsigned ***stylebits***);**
**unsigned cell_styles(const cell* ***c***);**
**void cell_on_styles(cell* ***c***, unsigned ***stylebits***);**
**void cell_off_styles(cell* ***c***, unsigned ***stylebits***);**
**void cell_set_fg_default(cell* ***c***);**
**void cell_set_bg_default(cell* ***c***);**
**int cell_set_fg_alpha(cell* ***c***, unsigned ***alpha***);**
**int cell_set_bg_alpha(cell* ***c***, unsigned ***alpha***);**
**bool cell_double_wide_p(const cell* ***c***);**
**const char* cell_extended_gcluster(const struct ncplane* ***n***, const cell* ***c***);**
**char* cell_strdup(const struct ncplane* ***n***, const cell* ***c***);**
**int cell_load_char(struct ncplane* ***n***, cell* ***c***, char ***ch***);**
**int cell_load_egc32(struct ncplane* ***n***, cell* ***c***, uint32_t ***egc***);**
**char* cell_extract(const struct ncplane* ***n***, const cell* ***c***, uint16_t* ***stylemask***, uint64_t* ***channels***);**
**uint32_t cell_bchannel(const cell* ***c***);**
**uint32_t cell_fchannel(const cell* ***c***);**
**uint64_t cell_set_bchannel(cell* ***c***, uint32_t ***channel***);**
**uint64_t cell_set_fchannel(cell* ***c***, uint32_t ***channel***);**
**uint32_t cell_fg_rgb(const cell* ***c***);**
**uint32_t cell_bg_rgb(const cell* ***c***);**
**unsigned cell_fg_alpha(const cell* ***c***);**
**unsigned cell_bg_alpha(const cell* ***c***);**
**unsigned cell_fg_rgb8(const cell* ***c***, unsigned* ***r***, unsigned* ***g***, unsigned* ***b***);**
**unsigned cell_bg_rgb8(const cell* ***c***, unsigned* ***r***, unsigned* ***g***, unsigned* ***b***);**
**int cell_set_fg_rgb8(cell* ***c***, int ***r***, int ***g***, int ***b***);**
**int cell_set_bg_rgb8(cell* ***c***, int ***r***, int ***g***, int ***b***);**
**void cell_set_fg_rgb8_clipped(cell* ***c***, int ***r***, int ***g***, int ***b***);**
**void cell_set_bg_rgb8_clipped(cell* ***c***, int ***r***, int ***g***, int ***b***);**
**int cell_set_fg_rgb(cell* ***c***, uint32_t ***channel***);**
**int cell_set_bg_rgb(cell* ***c***, uint32_t ***channel***);**
**bool cell_fg_default_p(const cell* ***c***);**
**bool cell_bg_default_p(const cell* ***c***);**
**int ncstrwidth(const char* ***text***)**;
# DESCRIPTION
Cells make up the framebuffer associated with each plane, with one cell per
addressable coordinate. You should not usually need to interact directly
with cells.
Each **cell** contains exactly one extended grapheme cluster. If the EGC
is encoded in UTF-8 with four or fewer bytes (all Unicode codepoints as of
Unicode 13 can be encoded in no more than four UTF-8 bytes), it is encoded
directly into the **cell**'s **gcluster** field, and no additional storage
is necessary. Otherwise, the EGC is stored as a nul-terminated UTF-8 string in
some backing egcpool. Egcpools are associated with **ncplane**s, so **cell**s
must be considered associated with **ncplane**s. Indeed, **ncplane_erase()**
destroys the backing storage for all a plane's cells, invalidating them. This
association is formed at the time of **cell_load()**, **cell_prime()**, or
**cell_duplicate()**. All of these functions first call **cell_release()**, as
does **cell_load_simple()**. When done using a **cell** entirely, call
**cell_release()**. **ncplane_destroy()** will free up the memory used by the
**cell**, but the backing egcpool has a maximum size of 16MiB, and failure to
release **cell**s can eventually block new output.
**cell_extended_gcluster** provides a nul-terminated handle to the EGC. This
ought be considered invalidated by changes to the **cell** or **egcpool**.
The handle is **not** heap-allocated; do **not** attempt to **free(3)** it.
A heap-allocated copy can be acquired with **cell_strdup**.
# RETURN VALUES
**cell_load()** and similar functions return the number of bytes loaded from the
EGC, or -1 on failure. They can fail due to either an invalid UTF-8 input, or the
backing egcpool reaching its maximum size.
**cell_set_fg_rgb8()** and similar functions will return -1 if provided invalid
inputs, and 0 otherwise.
# SEE ALSO
**notcurses(3)**,
**notcurses_channels(3)**,
**notcurses_plane(3)**,
**notcurses_output(3)**