Re: new_field - number of working buffers ?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Sentinel wrote:

> Could someone tell me what the 6th parameter (nbuf) to new_field() is? The
> docs say these working buffers can be used by our application.

It tells how many extra buffers to allocate for the field.
See for example field_buffer() and set_field_buffer().

> I am looking at the doc for PAD -- totally missed it since I am now going
> by the ncurses doc, and this comes under curses!
>
> I will check out the links just posted by Sadrul.
>
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