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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
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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
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