| FRAME(3) | FRAME(3)

NAME

| frinit, frsetrects, frinittick, frclear, frcharofpt, frptofchar, frinsert, frdelete, frselect, frtick, frselectpaint, frdrawsel, frdrawsel0, frgetmouse – frames of text

SYNOPSIS

`#include <u.h>
#include <libc.h>
#include <draw.h>
#include <thread.h>
#include <mouse.h>
#include <frame.h>

` `void frinit(Frame *f, Rectangle r, Font *ft, Image *b, Image **cols)

` `void frsetrects(Frame *f, Rectangle r, Image *b)

` `void frinittick(Frame *f)

` `void frclear(Frame *f, int resize)

` `ulong frcharofpt(Frame *f, Point pt)

` `Point frptofchar(Frame *f, ulong p)

` `void frinsert(Frame *f, Rune *r0, Rune *r1, ulong p)

` `int frdelete(Frame *f, ulong p0, ulong p1)

` `void frselect(Frame *f, Mousectl *m)

` `void frtick(Frame *f, Point pt, int up)

` `void frselectpaint(Frame *f, Point p0, Point p1, Image *col)

` `void frdrawsel(Frame *f, Point pt0, ulong p0, ulong p1,

int highlighted)

`

`void frdrawsel0(Frame *f, Point pt0, ulong p0, ulong p1,

Image *back, Image *text)

`

`enum{

| BACK, HIGH, BORD, TEXT, HTEXT, NCOL

};
`

DESCRIPTION

This library supports frames of editable text in a single font on raster displays, such as in sam(1) and 9term(1). Frames may hold any character except NUL (0). Long lines are folded and tabs are at fixed intervals.

The user-visible data structure, a `Frame`, is defined in `<frame.h>`:

`typedef struct Frame Frame;
struct Frame
{

Font *font; /* of chars in the frame */
Display *display; /* on which frame appears */
Image *b; /* on which frame appears */
Image *cols[NCOL]; /* text and background colors */
Rectangle r; /* in which text appears */
Rectangle entire; /* of full frame */
Frbox *box;
ulong p0, p1; /* selection */
ushort nbox, nalloc;
ushort maxtab; /* max size of tab, in pixels */
ushort nchars; /* # runes in frame */
ushort nlines; /* # lines with text */
ushort maxlines; /* total # lines in frame */
ushort lastlinefull; /* last line fills frame */
ushort modified; /* changed since frselect() */
Image *tick; /* typing tick */
Image *tickback; /* saved image under tick */
int ticked; /* flag: is tick onscreen? */

};

`

`Frbox` is an internal type and is not used by the interface. `P0` and `p1` may be changed by the application provided the selection routines are called afterwards to maintain a consistent display. Maxtab determines the size of tab stops. Frinit sets it to 8 times the width of a `0` (zero) character in the font; it may be changed before any text is added to the frame. The other elements of the structure are maintained by the library and should not be modified directly.

The text within frames is not directly addressable; instead frames are designed to work alongside another structure that holds the text. The typical application is to display a section of a longer document such as a text file or terminal session. Usually the program will keep its own copy of the text in the window (probably as an array of `Runes`) and pass components of this text to the frame routines to display the visible portion. Only the text that is visible is held by the `Frame`; the application must check `maxlines`, `nlines`, and `lastlinefull` to determine, for example, whether new text needs to be appended at the end of the `Frame` after calling frdelete (q.v.).

There are no routines in the library to allocate `Frames`; instead the interface assumes that `Frames` will be components of larger structures. Frinit prepares the `Frame` f so characters drawn in it will appear in the single `Font` ft. It then calls frsetrects and frinittick to initialize the geometry for the `Frame`. The `Image` b is where the `Frame` is to be drawn; `Rectangle` r defines the limit of the portion of the `Image` the text will occupy. The `Image` pointer may be null, allowing the other routines to be called to maintain the associated data structure in, for example, an obscured window.

The array of `Images` cols sets the colors in which text and borders will be drawn. The background of the frame will be drawn in `cols[BACK]`; the background of highlighted text in `cols[HIGH]`; borders and scroll bar in `cols[BORD]`; regular text in `cols[TEXT]`; and highlighted text in `cols[HTEXT]`.

Frclear frees the internal structures associated with f, permitting another frinit or frsetrects on the `Frame`. It does not clear the associated display. If f is to be deallocated, the associated `Font` and `Image` must be freed separately. The `resize` argument should be non-zero if the frame is to be redrawn with a different font; otherwise the frame will maintain some data structures associated with the font.

To resize a `Frame`, use frclear and frinit and then frinsert (q.v.) to recreate the display. If a `Frame` is being moved but not resized, that is, if the shape of its containing rectangle is unchanged, it is sufficient to use draw(3) to copy the containing rectangle from the old to the new location and then call frsetrects to establish the new geometry. (It is unnecessary to call frinittick unless the font size has changed.) No redrawing is necessary.

`Frames` hold text as runes, not as bytes. Frptofchar returns the location of the upper left corner of the p’th rune, starting from 0, in the `Frame` f. If f holds fewer than p runes, frptofchar returns the location of the upper right corner of the last character in f. Frcharofpt is the inverse: it returns the index of the closest rune whose image’s upper left corner is up and to the left of pt.

Frinsert inserts into `Frame` f starting at rune index p the runes between r0 and r1. If a NUL (0) character is inserted, chaos will ensue. Tabs and newlines are handled by the library, but all other characters, including control characters, are just displayed. For example, backspaces are printed; to erase a character, use frdelete.

Frdelete deletes from the `Frame` the text between p0 and p1; p1 points at the first rune beyond the deletion.

Frselect tracks the mouse to select a contiguous string of text in the `Frame`. When called, a mouse button is typically down. Frselect will return when the button state has changed (some buttons may still be down) and will set f`−>p0` and f`−>p1` to the selected range of text.

Programs that wish to manage the selection themselves have several routines to help. They involve the maintenance of the ‘tick’, the vertical line indicating a null selection between characters, and the colored region representing a non-null selection. Frtick draws (if up is non-zero) or removes (if up is zero) the tick at the screen position indicated by pt. Frdrawsel repaints a section of the frame, delimited by character positions p0 and p1, either with plain background or entirely highlighted, according to the flag highlighted, managing the tick appropriately. The point pt0 is the geometrical location of p0 on the screen; like all of the selection-helper routines’ `Point` arguments, it must be a value generated by frptofchar. Frdrawsel0 is a lower-level routine, taking as arguments a background color, back, and text color, text. It assumes that the tick is being handled (removed beforehand, replaced afterwards, as required) by its caller. Frselectpaint uses a solid color, col, to paint a region of the frame defined by the `Points` p0 and p1.

SOURCE

| `/usr/local/plan9/src/libframe`

SEE ALSO

| graphics(3), draw(3), cachechars(3).