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curs_border(3X)			 Library calls		       curs_border(3X)

NAME
       border,	wborder, box, hline, whline, vline, wvline, mvhline, mvwhline,
       mvvline,	mvwvline - draw	borders	and lines in a curses window of	 char-
       acters

SYNOPSIS
       #include	<curses.h>

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

       int box(WINDOW *win, chtype verch, chtype horch);

       int hline(chtype	ch, int	n);
       int whline(WINDOW *win, chtype ch, int n);
       int vline(chtype	ch, int	n);
       int wvline(WINDOW *win, chtype ch, int n);

       int mvhline(int y, int x, chtype	ch, int	n);
       int mvwhline(WINDOW *win, int y,	int x, chtype ch, int n);
       int mvvline(int y, int x, chtype	ch, int	n);
       int mvwvline(WINDOW *win, int y,	int x, chtype ch, int n);

DESCRIPTION
       The  border,  wborder and box routines draw a box around	the edges of a
       window.	Other than the window, each argument is	a character  with  at-
       tributes:

	      ls - left	side,
	      rs - right side,
	      ts - top side,
	      bs - bottom side,
	      tl - top left-hand corner,
	      tr - top right-hand corner,
	      bl - bottom left-hand corner, and
	      br - bottom right-hand corner.

       If  any of these	arguments is zero, then	the corresponding default val-
       ues (defined in curses.h) are used instead:

	      ACS_VLINE,
	      ACS_VLINE,
	      ACS_HLINE,
	      ACS_HLINE,
	      ACS_ULCORNER,
	      ACS_URCORNER,
	      ACS_LLCORNER,
	      ACS_LRCORNER.

       box(win,	verch, horch) is a shorthand for  the  following  call:	 wbor-
       der(win,	verch, verch, horch, horch, 0, 0, 0, 0).

       The  hline  and whline functions	draw a horizontal (left	to right) line
       using ch	starting at the	current	cursor position	in  the	 window.   The
       current	cursor position	is not changed.	 The line is at	most n charac-
       ters long, or as	many as	fit into the window.

       The vline and wvline functions draw a vertical (top to bottom) line us-
       ing ch starting at the current cursor position in the window.  The cur-
       rent cursor position is not changed.  The line is at most n  characters
       long, or	as many	as fit into the	window.

RETURN VALUE
       All  routines return the	integer	OK.  The SVr4.0	manual says "or	a non-
       negative	integer	if immedok is set", but	this appears to	be an error.

       X/Open Curses does not specify any error	conditions.  This  implementa-
       tion returns an error if	the window pointer is null.

       Functions  prefixed with	"mv" first perform cursor movement and fail if
       the position (y,	x) is outside the window boundaries.

NOTES
       The borders generated by	these functions	are inside  borders  (this  is
       also true of SVr4 curses, though	the fact is not	documented).

       Note that border	and box	may be macros.

PORTABILITY
       These functions are described in	X/Open Curses, Issue 4.

SEE ALSO
       curses(3X), curs_outopts(3X)

ncurses	6.5			  2024-04-20		       curs_border(3X)

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | NOTES | PORTABILITY | SEE ALSO

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