XForms: input fields / undocumented stuff ?

Tristan Savatier (tristan@bok.net)
Fri, 20 Mar 1998 02:56:17 -0800

# To subscribers of the xforms list from Tristan Savatier <tristan@bok.net> :

The manual says:

<< When the user presses
<RETURN> or <TAB> the input field is returned to
the application program and further input is directed to the
next input field. >>

It also says, somewhere else: <<Also when the user picks a new
input field with the mouse, the current input object is returned. >>

But actually what I observe is that:

If the <RETURN> is pressed (or another object is selected
with the mouse) and the input field was
not changed, then fl_do_forms does NOT return.

This means that the default behavior is in fact
FL_RETURN_END_CHANGED (is this documented anywhere ?
I couldn't find it).

Also, when an input filter is installed with fl_set_input_filter,
pressing return never causes fl_do_forms to return.
This does not seem to be documented either.

Also, I just noticed that fl_set_input_filter
and fl_set_input_maxchars are missing from the index.

They should appear between:

fl_set_idle_delta
... and ...
fl_set_mouse

I am using 0.88 with Linux.

-t
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