form_cursor(3x)

form_cursor3x

Position a form window cursor

Usage

#include <form.h>
int pos_form_cursor(FORM *form);

Overview

The function pos_form_cursor restores the cursor to the position required for the forms driver to continue processing requests. This is useful after curses routines have been called to do screen-painting in response to a form operation.

Return value

This routine returns one of the following:

E_OK

The routine succeeded.

E_BAD_ARGUMENT

Routine detected an incorrect or out-of-range argument.

E_NOT_POSTED

The form has not been posted.

E_SYSTEM_ERROR

System error occurred (see errno).

Notes

The header file <form.h> automatically includes the header file <curses.h>.

Portability

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

Releases

155 releases since Mac OS X 10.2; the text changed 2 times.

  1. 10.2–11.5
  2. 12.0.1–13.5
  3. 14.0–26.5

Authors

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

From ncurses 79 in macOS 26.5. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.