1.\" $NetBSD: form_field_info.3,v 1.9 2010/03/22 21:58:31 joerg Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 2001 4.\" Brett Lymn - blymn@baea.com.au, brett_lymn@yahoo.com.au 5.\" 6.\" This code is donated to The NetBSD Foundation by the author. 7.\" 8.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 9.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 10.\" are met: 11.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 13.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 14.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 15.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 16.\" 3. The name of the Author may not be used to endorse or promote 17.\" products derived from this software without specific prior written 18.\" permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.Dd January 1, 2001 33.Dt FORMS 3 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm dynamic_field_info , 37.Nm field_info 38.Nd form library 39.Sh LIBRARY 40.Lb libform 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.In form.h 43.Ft int 44.Fn dynamic_field_info "FIELD *field" "int *drows" "int *dcols" "int *max" 45.Ft int 46.Fn field_info "FIELD *field" "int *rows" "int *cols" "int *frow" "int *fcol" \ 47"int *nrow" "int *nbuf" 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49The function 50.Fn dynamic_field_info 51returns the sizing information for the field given. 52The function will return the number of rows, columns and the maximum 53growth of the field in the storage pointed to by the drows, dcols and max 54parameters respectively. 55Dynamic field information cannot be requested for the default field. 56If the field given is not dynamic then 57.Fn dynamic_field_info 58will simply return the size of the actual field. 59The 60.Fn field_info 61will return the number or rows, columns, field starting row, field 62starting column, number of off screen rows and number of buffers in 63.Fa rows , 64.Fa cols , 65.Fa frow , 66.Fa fcol , 67.Fa nrow 68and 69.Fa nbuf 70respectively. 71.Sh RETURN VALUES 72The functions will return one of the following error values: 73.Pp 74.Bl -tag -width E_UNKNOWN_COMMAND -compact 75.It Er E_OK 76The function was successful. 77.It Er E_BAD_ARGUMENT 78A bad argument was passed to the function. 79.El 80.Sh SEE ALSO 81.Xr curses 3 , 82.Xr forms 3 83.Sh NOTES 84The header 85.In form.h 86automatically includes both 87.In curses.h 88and 89.In eti.h . 90