Re: bug / inconsequent handling of field_status for fields not marked O_EDIT

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:24:36PM +0200, Frank van Vugt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When one enters a field not marked as O_EDIT and the form driver 
> receives/processes a regular key for it, then it's status is not changed 
> (field_status() returns false).
> 
> However, pressing <arrow_right> before entering a regular key WILL mark the 
> field as dirty (field_status() returns true), though obviously it's contents 
> won't change.

I made some changes to demo_forms to investigate this, but don't see this
behavior.  If you have a simple test program for comparison, that might be
helpful (or you could look at demo_forms and see why I'm not testing it
properly ;-).

For demo_forms (today I added) -t option to initialize the fields, and
use ^T to toggle each to readonly (O_EDIT not marked).  Then traversing
with ^N and trying a right-arrow followed by any text only gets a beep
and no change in status (it would show "modified" in the block at the
bottom of the screen).  Note that I'm calling set_field_status() when
the O_EDIT flag is first turned off, to ensure that field_status() would
only be returning changes after that point.

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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