X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fhtml%2Fman%2Fform.3x.html;h=e2191d242df175fec3e0be806286d90869c55111;hp=2f231712c77c379257ea1003edf9908a9ee1d131;hb=5dbe81a41e3c75806996cd762b9e55dcc9edb835;hpb=71c0306f0824ef2b10c4c5813fb003db48f3012e diff --git a/doc/html/man/form.3x.html b/doc/html/man/form.3x.html index 2f231712..e2191d24 100644 --- a/doc/html/man/form.3x.html +++ b/doc/html/man/form.3x.html @@ -1,8 +1,7 @@ - +
+ +- form(3x) form(3x) --
+
form - curses extension for programming forms --
+
#include <form.h> --
+
The form library provides terminal-independent facilities for composing form screens on character-cell terminals. The library includes: field routines, which create and @@ -77,7 +74,8 @@ A curses initialization routine such as initscr must be called before using any of these functions. - Current Default Values for Field Attributes + +
The form library maintains a default value for field attributes. You can get or set this default by calling the appropriate set_ or retrieval routine with a NULL @@ -85,7 +83,8 @@ affects future field creations, but does not change the rendering of fields already created. - Routine Name Index + +
The following table lists each form routine and the name of the manual page on which it is described. @@ -115,6 +114,7 @@ field_userptr form_field_userptr(3x) form_driver form_driver(3x) + form_driver_w form_driver(3x)* form_fields form_field(3x) form_init form_hook(3x) form_opts form_opts(3x) @@ -167,8 +167,7 @@ unpost_form form_post(3x) --
+
Routines that return pointers return NULL on error, and set errno to the corresponding error-code returned by functions returning an integer. Routines that return an @@ -212,47 +211,52 @@ The form driver code saw an unknown request code. --
- curses(3x) and related pages whose names begin "form_" for - detailed descriptions of the entry points. - - --
+
The header file <form.h> automatically includes the header files <curses.h> and <eti.h>. - In your library list, libform.a should be before libn- + In your library list, libform.a should be before libn- curses.a; that is, you want to say `-lform -lncurses', not - the other way around (which would give you a link error + the other way around (which would give you a link error using most linkers). --
- These routines emulate the System V forms library. They +
+ These routines emulate the System V forms library. They were not supported on Version 7 or BSD versions. --
- Juergen Pfeifer. Manual pages and adaptation for ncurses +
+ Juergen Pfeifer. Manual pages and adaptation for ncurses by Eric S. Raymond. --
- This describes ncurses version 5.7 (patch 20100731). +
+ curses(3x) and related pages whose names begin "form_" for + detailed descriptions of the entry points. + + This describes ncurses version 6.0 (patch 20160514). form(3x)-