Re: ACS_ & forms

[Mike Aubury]

Just having a look at the include file - ACS_... Does ACS stand for 'Alternate 
Character Set' ?
If so - is there any way to utilise the A_ALTCHARSET to obtain these more 
directly in my fields?


On Sunday 15 June 2003 11:19 am, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Mike Aubury wrote:
> > How would this work for multi-page forms ?
>
> I think it would work if the wrapper had a function to tell the caller
> when the page was becoming full - so they could add a page mark.  Drawing
> boxes will use space, and your application doesn't know in advance the
> exact layout, right?
>
> > 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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