Re: [Bug-guile-ncurses] Procedure (current-field form) is missing. (And the manual is confusing)

[Mike Gran]

On Sunday, October 2, 2016 5:07 AM, John Darrington <address@hidden> wrote:


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>Upstream has a function:
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>FIELD *current_field(FORM *form);         /* form to query */
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>which returns the current field of a form.
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>But guile-ncurses 1.7 does not seem to have a corresponding procedure
>or any way to retrive this information.   Consequently it's hard
>to write non-trivial programs using forms.
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>Also, the manual says:
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>-- Procedure: field-index form
>     This returns the index into the field array that is current for the
>     form.
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>which seems to suggest that that field-index takes a <#form> as an argument. 
>But it does not.  It takes a <#field>.
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>J.


Thank you for pointing this out. I've made an attempt to fix these the repo.


Since the ncurses field structures, once posted to forms, carry pointers to
one another in a circular list, the GC may not yet be correct.


Making a release has been on my TODO for a long time.  I'll try to make that
happen soon.

Regards,

Mike Gran