Re: ACS_ & forms

[Mike Aubury]

How would this work for multi-page forms ?

On Wednesday 11 June 2003 7:32 am, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 07:27:30AM +0100, Mike Aubury wrote:
> > Its not just for drawing around a field -
> > for example my form may look like this :
> >
> > p------q
> >
> >
> > b------d
> > [a]
> >
> >
> > (where p is a upper left corner etc)
> >
> > I normally create the fields first, then create the window and associate
> > the list of fields to it...
>
> I think the same approach would work:  a wrapper for the function(s) that
> create the objects that you would like to draw boxes around.  Perhaps one
> function to collect the list of fields, another to construct the box and
> enclosed fields on the screen.  As long as the box isn't overwritten by
> something else, updating or repainting the window would preserve it.
>
> > On Wednesday 11 June 2003 12:20 am, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:28:39PM +0100, Mike Aubury wrote:
> > > > I'm currently generating forms with 'labels' (fields with no
> > > > O_ACTIVE) and some real fields (which I assume is ok), and I'm
> > > > setting the value of these using set_field_buffer..
> > > >
> > > > The problem is - I'd like to use the ACS_HLINE, ACS_VLINE
> > > > 'characters' for drawing boxes around things within these labels.
> > > >
> > > > Anyone got any ideas as to how I could do this ?
> > >
> > > perhaps by making a wrapper for new_field() which keeps track of the
> > > fields which are drawn, and adjusts the calls to new_field() so they
> > > don't overlap.  Then it could draw a box around each field on the
> > > form's window, as the fields are created.
> > >
> > > > (I don't really want to just draw to the screen because of the way
> > > > the form is read in from a description file)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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