X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fform_field_new.3x;h=38f34bbe6e394737758dd7a1e9bd063b74640252;hp=23a351663688b37a5b16a5c0cc305dd159f1d892;hb=6b99a559185b3b8fad80b56bc2070b08101c33d1;hpb=96d6b16de0d487e5d3aed0302a179dbce11b5d96;ds=sidebyside diff --git a/man/form_field_new.3x b/man/form_field_new.3x index 23a35166..38f34bbe 100644 --- a/man/form_field_new.3x +++ b/man/form_field_new.3x @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ '\" t .\"*************************************************************************** -.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2007,2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * +.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2015,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * .\" * .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a * .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the * @@ -27,10 +27,13 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: form_field_new.3x,v 1.18 2010/12/04 18:40:45 tom Exp $ +.\" $Id: form_field_new.3x,v 1.20 2018/07/28 21:34:06 tom Exp $ .TH form_field_new 3X "" .SH NAME -\fBform_field_new\fR \- create and destroy form fields +\fBnew_field\fR, +\fBdup_field\fR, +\fBlink_field\fR, +\fBfree_field\fR \- create and destroy form fields .SH SYNOPSIS \fB#include \fR .br @@ -49,14 +52,17 @@ The function \fBnew_field\fR allocates a new field and initializes it from the parameters given: height, width, row of upper-left corner, column of upper-left corner, number off-screen rows, and number of additional working buffers. .PP -The function \fBdup_field\fR duplicates a field at a new location. Most +The function \fBdup_field\fR duplicates a field at a new location. +Most attributes (including current contents, size, validation type, buffer count, growth threshold, justification, foreground, background, pad character, -options, and user pointer) are copied. Field status and the field page bit are +options, and user pointer) are copied. +Field status and the field page bit are not copied. .PP The function \fBlink_field\fR acts like \fBdup_field\fR, but the new field -shares buffers with its parent. Attribute data is separate. +shares buffers with its parent. +Attribute data is separate. .PP The function \fBfree_field\fR de-allocates storage associated with a field. .SH RETURN VALUE @@ -89,12 +95,13 @@ field is connected. The header file \fB\fR automatically includes the header file \fB\fR. .SH PORTABILITY -These routines emulate the System V forms library. They were not supported on +These routines emulate the System V forms library. +They were not supported on Version 7 or BSD versions. .PP It may be unwise to count on the set of attributes copied by \fBdup_field\fR being portable; the System V forms library documents are not very explicit about what gets copied and what does not. .SH AUTHORS -Juergen Pfeifer. Manual pages and adaptation for new curses by Eric -S. Raymond. +Juergen Pfeifer. +Manual pages and adaptation for new curses by Eric S. Raymond.