Re: can a form be created inside a pad?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Eric Lenio wrote:

> hi everyone,
>
> has anyone ever created an ncurses form inside of an ncurses pad?  I have a
> need to create a rather "large" form, bigger than a physical screen.

I don't know - a few times the topic has come up, but no one's reported on
it, and I haven't tried building a test for it.  I did check some months
ago whether a panel could be put in a pad (that wouldn't work because some
of the necessary information is missing).

> i'm already aware that forms can be multi-page, but i'd rather keep the
> form to be one large page due to multi-page forms would require me to do
> more geometry calculations as far as positioning stuff on the window...
> or perhaps i don't understand how the form library works?

You could try it - set_form_win() using a pad.  It doesn't seem as if the
refresh calls are done inside the form library.

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