X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fform.3x;h=91e91ed86af859b7340172cc5c40a7a13e58b387;hb=c976a90788f3e50afc773670ff74c5270ecb48df;hp=ecc7a44087387d61eb9f9ece548d7c08adbb1696;hpb=8d3ea9021573747ecd129228ba7782a03243f62c;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/man/form.3x b/man/form.3x index ecc7a440..91e91ed8 100644 --- a/man/form.3x +++ b/man/form.3x @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ '\" t .\"*************************************************************************** -.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * +.\" Copyright 2018-2019,2020 Thomas E. Dickey * +.\" Copyright 1998-2016,2017 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 * @@ -27,7 +28,7 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: form.3x,v 1.30 2017/11/25 20:28:02 tom Exp $ +.\" $Id: form.3x,v 1.35 2020/03/28 19:06:28 tom Exp $ .TH form 3X "" .ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq .el .ds `` `` @@ -44,7 +45,8 @@ .br .SH DESCRIPTION The \fBform\fR library provides terminal-independent facilities for composing -form screens on character-cell terminals. The library includes: field +form screens on character-cell terminals. +The library includes: field routines, which create and modify form fields; and form routines, which group fields into forms, display forms on the screen, and handle interaction with the user. @@ -64,10 +66,12 @@ before using any of these functions. . .SS Current Default Values for Field Attributes . -The \fBform\fR library maintains a default value for field attributes. You +The \fBform\fR library maintains a default value for field attributes. +You can get or set this default by calling the appropriate \fBset_\fR or retrieval -routine with a \fBNULL\fR field pointer. Changing this default with a +routine with a \fBNULL\fR field pointer. +Changing this default with a \fBset_\fR function affects future field creations, but does not change the rendering of fields already created. . @@ -159,7 +163,7 @@ unpost_form \fBform_post\fR(3X) .TE .SH RETURN VALUE Routines that return pointers return \fBNULL\fR on error, -and set errno to the corresponding error-code returned by functions +and set \fBerrno\fP to the corresponding error-code returned by functions returning an integer. Routines that return an integer return one of the following error codes: @@ -195,7 +199,7 @@ The form is already posted. The form driver could not process the request. .TP 5 .B E_SYSTEM_ERROR -System error occurred (see \fBerrno\fR). +System error occurred (see \fBerrno\fR(3)). .TP 5 .B E_UNKNOWN_COMMAND The form driver code saw an unknown request code. @@ -207,7 +211,8 @@ In your library list, libform.a should be before libncurses.a; that is, you want to say \*(``\-lform \-lncurses\*('', not the other way around (which would give you a link error when using static libraries). .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 The menu facility was documented in SVr4.2 in @@ -226,10 +231,11 @@ but not provided by other implementations, e.g., \fBform_driver_w\fP, \fBunfocus_current_field\fP. .SH AUTHORS -Juergen Pfeifer. Manual pages and adaptation for ncurses by Eric +Juergen Pfeifer. +Manual pages and adaptation for ncurses by Eric S. Raymond. .SH SEE ALSO -\fBcurses\fR(3X) and related pages whose names begin "form_" for detailed +\fBcurses\fR(3X) and related pages whose names begin \*(``form_\*('' for detailed descriptions of the entry points. .PP This describes \fBncurses\fR