Re: need little ncurses help

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 05:43:00PM +0200, nicolas brito wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
> 
> I would know if (and then how) is it possible to make such a windows :
> http://mapage.noos.fr/hrchallenge/fig27.png
> 
> I have two doubt :
> 
> - the "double" line as window border
> - How to aff a [.] with the "centered" '.' ?

These use specific fonts that aren't generally available.

ncurses doesn't deal with that (fonts).  Essentially (n)curses deals with
the vt100 line-drawing characters using the terminfo capabilities

        acs_chars
        ena_acs
        enter_alt_charset_mode
        exit_alt_charset_mode

to switch between normal and "graphic" fonts.  There are #define's in
curses.h which give names to the well-known characters, e.g.,

        #define NCURSES_ACS(c)  (acs_map[(unsigned char)c])
        #define ACS_PLUS        NCURSES_ACS('n') /* large plus or crossover */

If you have a font that contains additional useful graphic characters,
it is possible to just make your own defines for the corresponding mapping.
ncurses stores an A_ALTCHARSET attribute for values in acs_map[], and
switches between normal/graphic character sets as needed when it sees this
attribute set.

Note however, that this only defines a way to refer to one alternate character
set.  terminfo also defines (but I'm not aware that any curses implementation
uses) these, which are analogous to the alternate character set strings listed
above:

       set0_des_seq                  s0ds         s0        Shift to codeset 0
                                                            (EUC set 0, ASCII)
       set1_des_seq                  s1ds         s1        Shift to codeset 1
       set2_des_seq                  s2ds         s2        Shift to codeset 2
       set3_des_seq                  s3ds         s3        Shift to codeset 3
 
> Thanks a lot and sorry if I annoy you with my newbie question.

This one is asked occasionally (if I find myself answering a useful question
too often, I add it to my faq).

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