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Sortix volatile manual

This manual documents Sortix volatile, a development build that has not been officially released. You can instead view this document in the latest official manual.

NAME

new_page, set_new_page — form library

LIBRARY

Curses Form Library (libform, -lform)

SYNOPSIS

#include <form.h>
int
new_page(FIELD *field);
int
set_new_page(FIELD *field, int page);

DESCRIPTION

The new_page() function returns TRUE if the given field is the start of a new page, otherwise it returns FALSE, the new page status of a field can be set or unset using the set_new_page() function.

RETURN VALUES

The functions will return one of the following error values:
E_OK
The function was successful.
E_CONNECTED
The field is connected to a form.

SEE ALSO

curses(3), forms(3)

NOTES

The header <form.h> automatically includes both <curses.h> and <eti.h>.
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