Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!inria!gouldfr!cetia!chris From: chris@cetia.UUCP (Chris Bertin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Curses: Drawing Boxes -- sending control chars Summary: box doesn't handle corners right Message-ID: <126@cetia.UUCP> Date: 12 Sep 88 12:25:26 GMT References: <873@wpg.UUCP> <384@marob.MASA.COM> <806@riddle.UUCP> Organization: Cetia, Toulon, France Lines: 21 In article <806@riddle.UUCP>, domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop) writes: > ... So, if you feed tic a > terminal description containing an acsc=... capability, you should get > prettier boxes when you use the curses box() function. Admittedly, this is > all theory: I've never had to do it myself in anger -- although I've spent > plenty of time persuading applications authors that they should be doing > it, rather than... > There is only one problem with this new alternate character stuff: the semi-graphics '|' and '-' will be used only if you draw your box with '|' and '-' (or NULLS) but the corners will always be done using the semi-graphics, even if you try to erase the box using spaces (box(win, ' ', ' ')). Chris -- Chris Bertin | CETIA | 150, Av Marcelin Berthelot, Z.I. Toulon-Est +33(94)212005 | 83088 Toulon Cedex, France Ext: 239 | inria!cetia