X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fhtml%2Fman%2Fform.3x.html;h=57e92f2c7bb41094f4982c3483766f6fc51e767c;hp=9cf621cee057cdaedcf6081e3e2f818cff1ba908;hb=2e5d72d6396bb38a8d1d1b3534f62e28aebaa600;hpb=ca276baf720e3a44721b9e18955d3f546955c6c8 diff --git a/doc/html/man/form.3x.html b/doc/html/man/form.3x.html index 9cf621ce..57e92f2c 100644 --- a/doc/html/man/form.3x.html +++ b/doc/html/man/form.3x.html @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ - +
@@ -65,21 +65,28 @@ into forms, display forms on the screen, and handle inter- action with the user. - The form library uses the curses libraries, and a curses - initialization routine such as initscr must be called - before using any of these functions. To use the form - library, link with the options -lform -lcurses. + The form library uses the curses libraries. To use the + form library, link with the options -lform -lcurses. + + Your program should set up the locale, e.g., + + setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); + + so that input/output processing will work. + + 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 + 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 field pointer. Changing this default with a set_ function - affects future field creations, but does not change the + 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 + The following table lists each form routine and the name of the manual page on which it is described. curses Routine Name Manual Page Name @@ -105,6 +112,7 @@ field_status form_field_buffer(3x) field_term form_hook(3x) field_type form_field_validation(3x) + field_userptr form_field_userptr(3x) form_driver form_driver(3x) form_fields form_field(3x) @@ -112,7 +120,6 @@ form_opts form_opts(3x) form_opts_off form_opts(3x) form_opts_on form_opts(3x) - form_page form_page(3x) form_request_by_name form_requestname(3x) form_request_name form_requestname(3x) @@ -162,15 +169,15 @@- 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 + 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 integer return one of the following error codes: E_OK The routine succeeded. E_BAD_ARGUMENT - Routine detected an incorrect or out-of-range argu- + Routine detected an incorrect or out-of-range argu- ment. E_BAD_STATE @@ -216,27 +223,27 @@ 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 5.6 (patch 20080621). + This describes ncurses version 5.9 (patch 20131221).