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authorwiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>2002-02-20 11:30:07 +0000
committerwiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>2002-02-20 11:30:07 +0000
commitb454907bfa44c1508d094c2ec45fd8a55f22fe67 (patch)
treee7db7da6d0b72c36eff4f1318247c6c0107d56cb /lib/libform
parent4929305fb30ba7303d376c34f5c33b89591f51ad (diff)
Fix some markup, add menus(3) to SEE ALSO.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libform')
-rw-r--r--lib/libform/forms.321
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libform/forms.3 b/lib/libform/forms.3
index 2e4a9094c1f..f9d8186690b 100644
--- a/lib/libform/forms.3
+++ b/lib/libform/forms.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: forms.3,v 1.5 2002/02/07 09:24:09 ross Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: forms.3,v 1.6 2002/02/20 11:30:07 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2001
.\" Brett Lymn - blymn@baea.com.au, brett_lymn@yahoo.com.au
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd January, 2001
+.Dd January 1, 2001
.Dt FORMS 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -41,30 +41,30 @@
.Fd #include \*[Lt]form.h\*[Gt]
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
-.Xr form 3
+.Nm
provides a terminal independent form system using the
.Xr curses 3
library. Before using the
-.Xr menu 3
+.Xr menus 3
functions the terminal must be set up by
.Xr curses 3
using the
.Fn initscr
function or similar. Programs using
-.Xr form
+.Nm
functions must be linked with the
.Xr curses 3
library
-.Xr -lcurses .
+.Fl lcurses .
.Pp
The
-.Xr form 3
+.Nm
library provides facilties for defining form fields, placing a form on the
terminal screen, assign pre and post change operations and setting the
attributes of both the form and it's fields.
-.Sh Defining default attributes for forms and fields
+.Ss Defining default attributes for forms and fields
The
-.Xr form 3
+.Nm
library allows any settable attribute or option of both the form and field
objects to be defined such that any new form or field automatically inherits
the value as default. Setting the default value will not affect any field or
@@ -184,7 +184,8 @@ E_CURRENT The field is the active one on the form.
.br
.ne 8
.Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr curses 3
+.Xr curses 3 ,
+.Xr menus 3
.Sh NOTES
This implementation of the forms library does depart in behaviour
subtly from the original AT \*[Am] T implementation. Some of the more