Drawing a box

[Laura Brody]

Quoting Richard Kreiss <rkreiss at gccconsulting.net>:

> I decided to play a bit with using graphics characters to draw a box  
>  around a title during output processing.
>
> Here is the code:
>
>        ◄ If:                                                          
>            ◄
>        Then: CLS("1","4")                                             
>            ◄
>  15  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>        ◄ If:                                                          
>            ◄
>        Then: SHOWCTR("1") "\g7"{repeat("\g0","125"){""{"\g9"          
>            ◄
>  16  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>        ◄ If:                                                          
>            ◄
>        Then: SHOWCTR("2") "\g.\b5 Checking For members Missing   
> Transactions \a->
>  17  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>        ◄ If:                                                          
>            ◄
>        Then: SHOWCTR("3") "\g1"{repeat("\g0","125"){""{"\g3"          
>            ◄
>
> Here is the results
>
>                  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────?g9
>                  │ Checking For members Missing Transactions │
>                  └─────────────────────────────────────────?g3
>
> Note that line 2 appears correctly with the verticals in the proper place.
>
> Question: Why don't \g9 upper right corner and \g3 lower right   
> corner resolve?
>
> When I was used repeat("\g0","150") the right corners resolved properly.
>

I see the problem,....

    the REPEAT has 3 characters in the first parameter, but then
in the second parameter, you have "125". You are telling REPEAT
to fill in the 125 character buffer with the 3 characters, but 125
is not evenly divisible by 3, so there is a "leftover" of just "\g".
Then you tack on the corner character, so the result is a mess. You
need to change "125" to "126" and the funky characters will
disappear.

>
> Richard Kreiss
> GCC Consulting
> rkreiss at gccconsulting.net
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