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curses_border

CURSES_BORDER(3)					   BSD Library Functions Manual 					  CURSES_BORDER(3)

NAME

     curses_border, border, box, wborder -- curses border drawing routines

LIBRARY

     Curses Library (libcurses, -lcurses)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <curses.h>

     int
     border(chtype ls, chtype rs, chtype ts, chtype bs, chtype tl, chtype tr, chtype bl, chtype br);

     int
     box(WINDOW *win, chtype vertical, chtype horizontal);

     int
     wborder(WINDOW *win, chtype ls, chtype rs, chtype ts, chtype bs, chtype tl, chtype tr, chtype bl, chtype br);

DESCRIPTION

     These functions draw borders around stdscr or around the specified window.

     The border() function draws a border around stdscr using the characters given as arguments to the function.  The ls, rs, ts and bs are the
     characters used to draw the left, right, top and bottom sides, respectively.  The tl, tr, bl and br are the characters used to draw the top-
     left, top-right, bottom-left and bottom-right corners, respectively.  If any of the characters have a text portion that is 0 then a default
     alternate character set character is used for that character.  Note that even though the text portion of the argument is 0, the argument can
     still be used to specify the attributes for that portion of the border.  The following table shows the default characters for each argument:

	   ls	 ACS_VLINE
	   rs	 ACS_VLINE
	   ts	 ACS_HLINE
	   bs	 ACS_HLINE
	   tl	 ACS_ULCORNER
	   tr	 ACS_URCORNER
	   bl	 ACS_LLCORNER
	   br	 ACS_LRCORNER

     wborder() is the same as border() excepting that the border is drawn around the specified window.

     The box() command draws a box around the window given in win using the vertical character for the vertical lines and the horizontal character
     for the horizontal lines.	The corner characters of this box will be the defaults as described for border() above.  Passing characters with
     text portion that is 0 to box() will result in the same defaults as those for border() as described above.

RETURN VALUES

     Functions returning pointers will return NULL if an error is detected.  The functions that return an int will return one of the following
     values:

     OK   The function completed successfully.
     ERR  An error occurred in the function.

SEE ALSO

     curses_attributes(3), curses_line(3)

STANDARDS

     The NetBSD Curses library complies with the X/Open Curses specification, part of the Single Unix Specification.

HISTORY

     The Curses package appeared in 4.0BSD.

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								  August 12, 2002							       BSD