Re: field_status in forms

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 05:00:13PM +0100, Mike Aubury wrote:
> Can someone explain to me how this works ?
> 
> I'm trying to determine if the user has changed the contents of a field and I 
> thought (from the man page) this was the function to use..
> 
> I've set_field_status to 0 at the beginning - but it appears to be set after 
> a 
> call to form_driver with a value of 514 (REQ_FIRST_PAGE ?) which obviously 
> isn't changing its contents.....

as I understand the code, field status is updated not after every keystroke,
but when the forms package is asked to synchronize its internal state with
the screen.  I encountered a similar issue when I was working on demo_forms.c,
and fixed it by forcing a validation (REQ_VALIDATION) on each keystroke.

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