Thread: [Console UI library] A small problem in completing dialoge box

Hello developers!
I am very new to the community so let me first add-up some things about me.
I am currently 17 years old, C programmer, currently living in Bulgaria. (Born in Bulgaria as well) I seriously enjoy C-programming, currently taking courses for professional license - diploma "Programmer" and I already passed the C test. Recently we are learning "Application Programming on C with GTK+" But I already have some experience with that.. all fight for the diploma..
I intend to be useful to the community as much as possible

Back on topic. I am coding Fake GUI / UI library for Windows consoles. Ncurses might be good, but a bit advanced and not entirely oriented to UI. My library will have fully-functional dialog boxes, text boxes, buttons including dragging feature for you to drag boxes around. So far I have a dialog box working. I am not going to get into details, you will compile it by yourself and see how is it working

Direct download the progress of the library.

The problem in it is when you input shorter string as a box fill. I don't have a good idea of how to fill the rest of the box with the background color of the box.

Filled of text:


(The problem) Non-filled of text:


Or just blank box:

Could you just add spaces to the dialog text so that it fills out the rest of the box? The background color for the "space" character should be the same as the other text.

gg

O_o

You should employ the same methods as is common for the various states.

Test < Space): You fill the empty space with a fill character. (You should allow the client code to specify the character with the interface.)

Text == Space): You do nothing special.

Text > Space): You print a "more" marker such as the '>' character or similar. (You should allow the client code to specify the character with the interface.)

If you are really trying to make a robust GUI, you should just optionally print a scrollbar allowing the dialog window with too much text to be viewed.

Soma