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Hi Dmitry

Thanks. So here is what I am playing around with. There is an ncurses Ada b=
inding and a binding to a the Forms library but I am trying to do something=
 a little different.

The basic problem is to collect user input and assign characters back to ma=
ny string variables in one go.=20

I tried some simple experiments with all of the code in one procedure and e=
verything was okay, but I am trying to convert it into a sensible package a=
nd the passing of strings is an issue, it is no longer easy to obtain the a=
ddress of each character for use later.

I want to call a procedure to load each string into an intermediate data st=
ructure but I do not want to have to pass them all back to have their value=
s to be updated. I figured with the screen co-ordinates and addresses I cou=
ld avoid this.

I don't really want to start with pointer arithmetic or similar but I also =
need the strings to have their values updated without the second batch of p=
assing .

Thanks-Pat