form_cursor(3)

form_cursor3

Position a form window cursor

Usage

#include <form.h>

int pos_form_cursor(FORM *form);

Overview

The function pos_form_cursor restores the cursor to the position required for the forms driver to continue processing requests. This is useful after curses routines have been called to do screen-painting in response to a form operation.

Return value

This routine returns one of the following:

E_OK

The routine succeeded.

E_BAD_ARGUMENT

Routine detected an incorrect or out-of-range argument.

E_NOT_POSTED

The form has not been posted.

E_SYSTEM_ERROR

System error occurred (see errno(3)).

Portability

These routines emulate the System V forms library. They were not supported on Version 7 or BSD versions.

Releases

66 releases since FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE; the text changed 5 times.

  1. 4.3–6.2
  2. 6.3–10.4
  3. 11.0–12.4
  4. 13.0–13.5
  5. 14.0–14.1
  6. 14.2–16.0

Authors

Juergen Pfeifer. Manual pages and adaptation for new curses by Eric S. Raymond.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.