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:
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.