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-<H1 class="no-header">curs_border 3x 2023-07-01 ncurses 6.4 Library calls</H1>
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<STRONG><A HREF="curs_border.3x.html">curs_border(3x)</A></STRONG> Library calls <STRONG><A HREF="curs_border.3x.html">curs_border(3x)</A></STRONG>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-NAME">NAME</a></H2><PRE>
- <STRONG>border</STRONG>, <STRONG>wborder</STRONG>, <STRONG>box</STRONG>, <STRONG>hline</STRONG>, <STRONG>whline</STRONG>, <STRONG>vline</STRONG>, <STRONG>wvline</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvhline</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwhline</STRONG>,
- <STRONG>mvvline</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwvline</STRONG> - create <STRONG>curses</STRONG> borders, horizontal and vertical
- lines
+ <STRONG>border</STRONG>, <STRONG>wborder</STRONG>, <STRONG>box</STRONG>, <STRONG>hline</STRONG>, <STRONG>whline</STRONG>, <STRONG>vline</STRONG>, <STRONG>wvline</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvhline</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwhline</STRONG>,
+ <STRONG>mvvline</STRONG>, <STRONG>mvwvline</STRONG> - draw borders and lines in a <EM>curses</EM> window of
+ characters
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
The <STRONG>border</STRONG>, <STRONG>wborder</STRONG> and <STRONG>box</STRONG> routines draw a box around the edges of a
- window. Other than the window, each argument is a character with at-
- tributes:
+ window. Other than the window, each argument is a character with
+ attributes:
<EM>ls</EM> - left side,
<EM>rs</EM> - right side,
<EM>bl</EM> - bottom left-hand corner, and
<EM>br</EM> - bottom right-hand corner.
- If any of these arguments is zero, then the corresponding default val-
- ues (defined in <STRONG>curses.h</STRONG>) are used instead:
+ If any of these arguments is zero, then the corresponding default
+ values (defined in <STRONG>curses.h</STRONG>) are used instead:
<STRONG>ACS_VLINE</STRONG>,
<STRONG>ACS_VLINE</STRONG>,
<STRONG>ACS_LLCORNER</STRONG>,
<STRONG>ACS_LRCORNER</STRONG>.
- <STRONG>box(</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <EM>verch</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <EM>horch</EM><STRONG>)</STRONG> is a shorthand for the following call: <STRONG>wbor-</STRONG>
- <STRONG>der(</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <EM>verch</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <EM>verch</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <EM>horch</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <EM>horch</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>0,</STRONG> <STRONG>0,</STRONG> <STRONG>0,</STRONG> <STRONG>0)</STRONG>.
+ <STRONG>box(</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <EM>verch</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <EM>horch</EM><STRONG>)</STRONG> is a shorthand for the following call:
+ <STRONG>wborder(</STRONG><EM>win</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <EM>verch</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <EM>verch</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <EM>horch</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <EM>horch</EM><STRONG>,</STRONG> <STRONG>0,</STRONG> <STRONG>0,</STRONG> <STRONG>0,</STRONG> <STRONG>0)</STRONG>.
The <STRONG>hline</STRONG> and <STRONG>whline</STRONG> functions draw a horizontal (left to right) line
using <EM>ch</EM> starting at the current cursor position in the window. The
- current cursor position is not changed. The line is at most <EM>n</EM> charac-
- ters long, or as many as fit into the window.
+ current cursor position is not changed. The line is at most <EM>n</EM>
+ characters long, or as many as fit into the window.
- The <STRONG>vline</STRONG> and <STRONG>wvline</STRONG> functions draw a vertical (top to bottom) line us-
- ing <EM>ch</EM> starting at the current cursor position in the window. The cur-
- rent cursor position is not changed. The line is at most <EM>n</EM> characters
- long, or as many as fit into the window.
+ The <STRONG>vline</STRONG> and <STRONG>wvline</STRONG> functions draw a vertical (top to bottom) line
+ using <EM>ch</EM> starting at the current cursor position in the window. The
+ current cursor position is not changed. The line is at most <EM>n</EM>
+ characters long, or as many as fit into the window.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
All routines return the integer <STRONG>OK</STRONG>. The SVr4.0 manual says "or a non-
negative integer if <STRONG>immedok</STRONG> is set", but this appears to be an error.
- X/Open does not define any error conditions. This implementation re-
- turns an error if the window pointer is null.
+ X/Open does not define any error conditions. This implementation
+ returns an error if the window pointer is null.
Functions with a "mv" prefix first perform a cursor movement using
<STRONG>wmove</STRONG>, and return an error if the position is outside the window, or if
-ncurses 6.4 2023-0
7-01 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_border.3x.html">curs_border(3x)</A></STRONG>
+ncurses 6.4 2023-0
9-16 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_border.3x.html">curs_border(3x)</A></STRONG>
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