X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fform.3x;h=e9576b20b38315e4bddf1b628deb4dd7f218c6d4;hp=ecc7a44087387d61eb9f9ece548d7c08adbb1696;hb=321b81e6b3fa425daddac02420d862100dc3aac8;hpb=8d3ea9021573747ecd129228ba7782a03243f62c diff --git a/man/form.3x b/man/form.3x index ecc7a440..e9576b20 100644 --- a/man/form.3x +++ b/man/form.3x @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ '\" t .\"*************************************************************************** -.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * +.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2017,2018 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 * @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: form.3x,v 1.30 2017/11/25 20:28:02 tom Exp $ +.\" $Id: form.3x,v 1.31 2018/07/28 21:34:56 tom Exp $ .TH form 3X "" .ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq .el .ds `` `` @@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ .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 +65,12 @@ 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. . @@ -207,7 +210,8 @@ 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 @@ -226,7 +230,8 @@ 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