FRINIT(3G)

NAME
frinit, frsetrects, frclear, frcharofpt, frptofchar, frinsert, frdelete, frselect, frselectp, frselectf, frgetmouse - frames of text

SYNOPSIS
#include <u.h>
#include <libc.h>
#include <libg.h>
#include <frame.h>

void  frinit(Frame *f, Rectangle r, Font *ft, Bitmap *b);

void  frsetrects(Frame *f, Rectangle r, Bitmap *b);

void  frclear(Frame *f);

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, Mouse *m);

void  frselectp(Frame *f, Fcode fc);

void  frselectf(Frame *f, Point p0, Point p1, Fcode c);

extern void frgetmouse(void);

DESCRIPTION
This library supports frames of editable text in a single font on bitmap displays, such as in sam(1), 8½(1), and 9term(1). Frames may hold any character except NUL. 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 */
        	Bitmap	*b;	/* on which frame appears */
        	Rectangle	r;	/* in which text appears */
        	Rectangle	entire;	/* of full frame */
        	Frbox	*box;
        	ulong	p0, p1;	/* selection */
        	short	left;	/* left edge of text */
        	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() */
        };

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 1 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.

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 to initialize the geometry for the Frame. The Bitmap b is where the Frame is to be drawn; Rectangle r defines the limit of the portion of the Bitmap the text will occupy. The Bitmap pointer may be null, allowing the other routines to be called to maintain the associated data structure in, for example, an obscured window.

Frclear frees the internal structures associated with f, permitting another frinit or frsetrects on the Frame. If f is to be deallocated, the associated Font and Bitmap must be freed separately.

To reshape a Frame, use frclear and frinit and then frinsert (q.v.) to recreate the display. If a Frame is being moved but not reshaped, that is, if the shape of its containing rectangle is unchanged, it is sufficient to bitblt(3) the containing rectangle from the old to the new location and then call frsetrects to establish the new geometry. 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 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.

Frdelete deletes from the Frame the text between p0 and p1.

Frselect tracks the mouse to select a contiguous string of text in the Frame. When called, mouse button 1 should be depressed. It will return when the button is released and will set f->p0 and f->p1 to the selected range of text. Frselectf and Frselectp modify the display of the selected text. Frselectf highlights the text between p0 and p1 (which must have been returned by frptofochar) using bitblt in mode c. Frselectp is similar but highlights the text from f->p0 to f->p1. Neither frselectf nor frselectp modifies f->p0 or f->p1.

Upon return from frinsert or frdelete, the display will be consistent but f->p0 and f->p1 may not point to the desired selection. It may be necessary to adjust the selection and use frselectf or frselectp to fix the display.

Frgetmouse must be provided by the application; frselect calls it to get mouse updates. Each call to frgetmouse should update the Mouse structure pointed to by frselect's argument m. Frgetmouse should block until the mouse status has changed.

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. 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.

SEE ALSO
graphics(3), bitblt(3), event(3), cachechar(3).