Re: Window Borders

Spokey the Wheeler <spokey@haunted.demon.co.uk> wrote: >cbaldwin@loknar.Corp.Sun.COM (Chris Baldwin) writes: >> Anyway, He is looking for a font description that will allow him to >> draw windows with smooth borders instead of dashes. He is running on a >> Sparc 5 under Solaris 2.4. Does anyone have any ideas? > >I'm making a number of assumptions here, [...] I'll make some different assumptions: He's running either sheltool or cmdtool under OpenWindows. If so, the answer is, "It can't be done -- at least, no way has been found to-date." 4GL requires the existence of characters to "draw" the sides and corners of the border box, which don't exist in the font's used by the {cmd,shell}tool terminal emulators. A common work-around is to use xterm instead of {cmd,shell}tool. xterm does support the border characters, as I understand. I've never tried it myself. Any utility that *closely* emulates a VTxxx terminal should do. I suppose that a truly VTxxx compitable OW font would in fact work. If you know of one, I'd appreciate hearing about it. Once you settle on the replacement utility, you will still have to set up the termcap entry as S.T.Wheeler pointed out. There are some user-developed termcaps in ftp://mathcs.emory.edu/pub/informix/pub/termcaps. Good luck, Walt. -- Walt Hultgren Internet: walt@rmy.emory.edu (IP 128.140.8.1) Emory University UUCP: {...,gatech,rutgers,uunet}!emory!rmy!walt 954 Gatewood Road, NE BITNET: walt@EMORY Atlanta, GA 30329 USA Voice: +1 404 727 0648