On 8 February 2010 17:50, James Paige <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have been tracing the evolution of box drawing functions in the ohr
> biosphere.
>
> == allmodex.bas ==
>
> rectangle
> fuzzyrect
> drawbox
>
> == common.bas ==
>
> edgebox
>  edgeboxstyle
>  center_edgeboxstyle
>   centerbox
>   centerfuz
>
> emptybox (like drawbox but with thickness, uses rectangle)
>
> (Have I missed any?)
>
> ----
>
> I was feeling overwhelmed by these, but having sorted them out a little,
> I fell better. I am going to work on adding support for drawing boxes of
> all kinds on frames.
>
> While I am at it, I might give the edgebox derivatives less crappy
> names, and maybe eliminate some of them entirely (centerbox and
> centerfuz, I am lookin' at you!)
>
> ---
> James

I (still) feel overwhelmed by the number of box functions. I
definitely think we need to get rid of some. In my experience
centerbox/fuz usually seem to make code harder to modify.

I take back anything I ever said about not providing overloads for
allmodex graphics functions to draw onto a frame.
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