field_userptr(3)

field_userptr3

Associate application data with a form field

Usage

#include <form.h>

int set_field_userptr(FIELD *field, void *userptr); void *field_userptr(const FIELD *field);

Overview

Every form field has a field that can be used to hold application-specific data (that is, the form-driver code leaves it alone). These functions get and set that field.

Return value

The function field_userptr returns a pointer (which may be NULL). It does not set errno.

The function set_field_userptr returns E_OK (success).

Portability

These routines emulate the System V forms library. They were not supported on Version 7 or BSD versions.

The user pointer is a void pointer. We chose not to leave it as a char pointer for SVr4 compatibility.

Releases

66 releases since FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE; the text changed 8 times.

  1. 4.3–6.2
  2. 6.3–10.4
  3. 11.0–12.4
  4. 13.0–13.5
  5. 14.0–14.1
  6. 14.2–14.4
  7. 14.5
  8. 15.0
  9. 15.1–16.0

Authors

Juergen Pfeifer. Manual pages and adaptation for new curses by Eric S. Raymond.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.