Complete Examples

Your primary source of examples is of course the examples page. This page, however, shows the simplest possible design and a very complex design in source code. Verify your insights from the previous sections.

The simplest possible box design:

    BOX simple

        sample
            ++++++++++++
            +          +
            ++++++++++++
        ends

        shapes {
            n("+")  s("+")  e("+")  w("+")
           nw("+") ne("+") se("+") sw("+")
        }

        elastic (n,s,e,w)

    END simple

A complete, very complex box design:

BOX tjc author "Thomas Jensen <boxes(at)thomasjensen.com> "

    revision  "1.1"
    revdate  "July 16, 1999 (Friday, 18:55h)"
    created   "April 02, 1999 (Friday, 19:26h)"

Sample static char *foo (const int a, const int b) /* * Do the foo on the bar and around again. * * a number of doodlefrobs * b barfoo mode (0 == off) * * Memory will be allocated for the result. * Should only be called for lines of length > 0; * * RETURNS: Success: Pointer to result line * Error: 0 (e.g. out of memory) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ { static char temp .... int ii; .... ends indent "none" # alternatives: "box", "text" shapes { wnw ("/*") w (" *") sw ("* ", " *") ssw ("*", "/") s (" *", " ") } elastic (s, w) delimiter ?" replace "\*/" with "*\/" # quote closing comment tags reverse "\*\\/" to "*/" padding { left 2 vertical 1 } END tjc Note the SAMPLE block of the latter example. It shows much more than just the box itself, trying to give the user an impression of what the box would look like if used in reality. We only need half the backslashes in the REVERSE and REPLACE statements because we use delimiter to change the escape character from backslash to question mark.

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