Re: ACS_ & forms

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:28:39PM +0100, Mike Aubury wrote:
> I'm currently generating forms with 'labels' (fields with no O_ACTIVE) and 
> some real fields (which I assume is ok), and I'm setting the value of these 
> using set_field_buffer..
> 
> The problem is - I'd like to use the ACS_HLINE, ACS_VLINE 'characters' for 
> drawing boxes around things within these labels.
> 
> Anyone got any ideas as to how I could do this ?

perhaps by making a wrapper for new_field() which keeps track of the
fields which are drawn, and adjusts the calls to new_field() so they
don't overlap.  Then it could draw a box around each field on the form's
window, as the fields are created.
 
> (I don't really want to just draw to the screen because of the way the form 
> is 
> read in from a description file)
> 
> 
> 
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