Help for designing outlines in c language

[Manmeet Mittal]

> Hi all this is Manmeet Mittal,

>I want to create menus and borders in c. How can make it. What r its codings.

[Walter Roberson]

In article <11************ *********@h48g2 000cwc.googlegr oups.com>,
Manmeet Mittal <ma************ @yahoo.comwrote :

>> Hi all this is Manmeet Mittal,
I want to create menus and borders in c. How can make it. What r its codings.

The C language itself only provides for text, and not graphics.
If you were thinking of graphical menus (e.g., pop-up or drop-down
menus) then you need operating system dependant extensions and you should
ask about those in a newsgroup appropriate for your operating system.

Even if you were just thinking about text-only menus and borders,
you cannot portably do what you want in standard C, as C does not
have any notion of "screen" or font or how characters show up on displays.
C also does not have any notion of where things are on whatever
output device is being used, so you cannot portably position particular
information at particular locations.
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[Dann Corbit]

"Manmeet Mittal" <ma************ @yahoo.comwrote in message
news:11******** *************@h 48g2000cwc.goog legroups.com...

>> Hi all this is Manmeet Mittal,
I want to create menus and borders in c. How can make it. What r its
codings.

In the C language, there is no GUI defined.

DDJ had a character based interface a while ago:
http://www.ddj.com/showArticle.jhtml...leID=184408752

Probably, if you want something good looking and portable, you should look
into a tool like wxWidgets:
http://www.wxwidgets.org/

[Simon Biber]

Manmeet Mittal wrote:

Hi all this is Manmeet Mittal,
I want to create menus and borders in c. How can make it. What r its codings.

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
int choice = 0;
while(choice != 4)
{
puts(
"|------------------------|\n"
"| MAIN MENU |\n"
"|------------------------|\n"
"| 1. Add |\n"
"| 2. Subtract |\n"
"| 3. Multiply |\n"
"| 4. Quit |\n"
"|------------------------|\n");
scanf("%d", &choice);
switch(choice)
{
case 1: puts("Adding"); break;
case 2: puts("Subtracti ng"); break;
case 3: puts("Multiplyi ng"); break;
case 4: break;
default: puts("Invalid choice");
}
}
return 0;
}

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Simon.

[Walter Roberson]

In article <44**********@n ews.peopletelec om.com.au>,
Simon Biber <ne**@ralmin.cc wrote:

>Manmeet Mittal wrote:

>I want to create menus and borders in c. How can make it. What r its codings.

puts(
"|------------------------|\n"
"| MAIN MENU |\n"
"|------------------------|\n"
"| 1. Add |\n"
"| 2. Subtract |\n"
"| 3. Multiply |\n"
"| 4. Quit |\n"
"|------------------------|\n");

That assumes a fixed width font, which is not a portable assumption.

It also assumes that the display is at least 26 wide by 8 high,
which is also not portable.
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[Skarmander]

Walter Roberson wrote:

In article <44**********@n ews.peopletelec om.com.au>,
Simon Biber <ne**@ralmin.cc wrote:

>Manmeet Mittal wrote:

>>I want to create menus and borders in c. How can make it. What r its codings.

> puts(
"|------------------------|\n"
"| MAIN MENU |\n"
"|------------------------|\n"
"| 1. Add |\n"
"| 2. Subtract |\n"
"| 3. Multiply |\n"
"| 4. Quit |\n"
"|------------------------|\n");

That assumes a fixed width font, which is not a portable assumption.

It also assumes that the display is at least 26 wide by 8 high,
which is also not portable.

Heck, it assumes *a* display, which is not portable. There's no way to do
"menus and borders" in the way the OP presumably intends in portable C, so
it hardly matters.

S.

[Skarmander]

Skarmander wrote:

There's no way to do "menus and borders" in the way the OP presumably
intends in portable C, so it hardly matters.

Necessary correction: there's no way to do it in portable *standard* C.
Portability is, of course, a matter of degree.

S.

[Keith Thompson]

"Manmeet Mittal" <ma************ @yahoo.comwrite s:

>> Hi all this is Manmeet Mittal,
I want to create menus and borders in c. How can make it. What r its codings.

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[Simon Biber]

Walter Roberson wrote:

In article <44**********@n ews.peopletelec om.com.au>,
Simon Biber <ne**@ralmin.cc wrote:

>Manmeet Mittal wrote:

>>I want to create menus and borders in c. How can make it. What r its codings.

> puts(
"|------------------------|\n"
"| MAIN MENU |\n"
"|------------------------|\n"
"| 1. Add |\n"
"| 2. Subtract |\n"
"| 3. Multiply |\n"
"| 4. Quit |\n"
"|------------------------|\n");

That assumes a fixed width font, which is not a portable assumption.

It also assumes that the display is at least 26 wide by 8 high,
which is also not portable.

With a proportional font it will still work, but just look weird.

What hosted C environment has a display less than 26x8 characters?

My program will also work on teletype printer terminals -- it does not
require a display.

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[Walter Roberson]

In article <44**********@n ews.peopletelec om.com.au>,
Simon Biber <ne**@ralmin.cc wrote:

>Walter Roberson wrote:

>In article <44**********@n ews.peopletelec om.com.au>,
Simon Biber <ne**@ralmin.cc wrote:

>> puts(
"|------------------------|\n"
"| MAIN MENU |\n"
"|------------------------|\n"
"| 1. Add |\n"
"| 2. Subtract |\n"
"| 3. Multiply |\n"
"| 4. Quit |\n"
"|------------------------|\n");

>That assumes a fixed width font, which is not a portable assumption.

>With a proportional font it will still work, but just look weird.

With a proportional font, it is unlikely to fullfill the requirement
of having a "border". For example in the font 'ariel', the trailing
bar of several lines align with the end fof the U of the word
MENU .

>What hosted C environment has a display less than 26x8 characters?

Windows on PalmOS might well be that small.

>My program will also work on teletype printer terminals -- it does not
require a display.

teletypes sometimes have proportional fonts.
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