ncurses 5.7 - patch 20100220

[ncurses.git] / man / form.3x

diff --git a/man/form.3x b/man/form.3x
index 264662e664ae5367ff759b30c3192af3952fbacc..dcba19b3353e7227fbc99346c07306682b23bbea 100644 (file)
--- a/man/form.3x
+++ b/man/form.3x
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 '\" t
 .\"***************************************************************************
 '\" t
 .\"***************************************************************************

-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2002,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2006,2008 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            *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *


@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"

-.\" $Id: form.3x,v 1.20 2006/11/04 18:50:09 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: form.3x,v 1.22 2008/10/11 20:48:11 tom Exp $

 .TH form 3X ""
 .SH NAME
 \fBform\fR - curses extension for programming forms
 .TH form 3X ""
 .SH NAME
 \fBform\fR - curses extension for programming forms


@@ -41,10 +41,18 @@ 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.
 .PP
 fields into forms, display forms on the screen, and handle interaction with the
 user.
 .PP

-The \fBform\fR library uses the \fBcurses\fR libraries, and a curses
-initialization routine such as \fBinitscr\fR must be called before using any of
-these functions.  To use the \fBform\fR library, link with the options
+The \fBform\fR library uses the \fBcurses\fR libraries.
+To use the \fBform\fR library, link with the options

 \fB-lform -lcurses\fR.
 \fB-lform -lcurses\fR.

+.PP
+Your program should set up the locale, e.g.,
+.sp
+     \fBsetlocale(LC_ALL, "");\fP
+.sp
+so that input/output processing will work.
+.PP
+A curses initialization routine such as \fBinitscr\fR must be called
+before using any of these functions.

 .
 .SS Current Default Values for Field Attributes
 .
 .
 .SS Current Default Values for Field Attributes
 .


@@ -69,7 +77,7 @@ current_field \fBform_page\fR(3X)
 data_ahead     \fBform_data\fR(3X)
 data_behind    \fBform_data\fR(3X)
 dup_field      \fBform_field_new\fR(3X)
 data_ahead     \fBform_data\fR(3X)
 data_behind    \fBform_data\fR(3X)
 dup_field      \fBform_field_new\fR(3X)

-dynamic_fieldinfo      \fBform_field_info\fR(3X)
+dynamic_field_info     \fBform_field_info\fR(3X)

 field_arg      \fBform_field_validation\fR(3X)
 field_back     \fBform_field_attributes\fR(3X)
 field_buffer   \fBform_field_buffer\fR(3X)
 field_arg      \fBform_field_validation\fR(3X)
 field_back     \fBform_field_attributes\fR(3X)
 field_buffer   \fBform_field_buffer\fR(3X)