C/C++ NCURSES，获取WINDOW中输入的所有字符

Question

What I'm trying to achieve (more than “to reproduce”):

In other projects (not TUI contexts) I've used several GUI toolkit ( wxWidgets , wxPython ), etc. (just to name a few)), and most of the time they have handy methods on widgets receiving user input (like “text control” (single and/or multi lines)), methods which are used to get the content of the widgets into any container/object (eg string ( 1 )).

Is there any similar functionality in ncurses ?

Lets say I have the following code:

WINDOW *textarea = newwin(height, width, starty, startx);

/**
 * There, code for letting the user type text in the textarea 
**/

switch (ch)
{
    case KEY_F(4): // Save
        /**
         * What do I do from here
         * to get all the content of the textarea WINDOW
         * that the user typed in
        **/
        break;
}

Does ncurses provides such a feature?

I'm working on a lightweight terminal text editor (not a source code editor, simply a text editor), and it would greatly simplify my job if I could do such a thing with ncurses.

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Notes (for the curious)

(1): For example the wxTextCtrl::GetValue which returns a wxString

Answer 1

curses doesn't have a notion of "containers". It uses windows (whose semantics are defined by the calling application), and can get input characters associated with a window, eg, using wgetch or wget_wch . The string-input functions call one of those.

However, the input streams for the wgetch/wget_wch functions are probably (unless you set up separate screens ) the same input device. It's up to the application to decide how to distinguish input from one or multiple windows.