How to draw at border of screen in c++?

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I was thinking of printing some border design at the screen borders(see below) in c++ using graphics (using alt codes) but don't know how to. Please help.

examples :

Alt code used: http://www.alt-codes.net/[^]

Sorry patterns appear distorted in preview(dont know why), but you can guess what I want.
1)

╔══════════════════╗   
║                  ║
║                  ║
║                  ║
║                  ║
║                  ║
╚══════════════════╝

2)

░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░
░░ ░░
░░ ░░
░░ ░░
░░ ░░
░░ ░░
░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░

and so on.....

[edit]Code block added - OriginalGriff[/edit]

Posted 9-Feb-13 22:20pm

prerit datta

Updated 9-Feb-13 22:41pm

OriginalGriff

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OriginalGriff 10-Feb-13 4:44am

Your preview looks distorted because HMTL suppresses multiple spaces - I have used a code block to force the system to preserve them on the first one.
Unfortunately, if I add the pre tags to teh second example, the border itself disappears - so you will have to live with that!

prerit datta 10-Feb-13 4:45am

Thanks for editing anyway!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Feb-13 8:43am

It simply makes no sense. Why doing all that?
—SA

prerit datta 10-Feb-13 9:02am

I'm making a school quiz project in c++. The screen gets refreshed and this border(design) appears along with a new question every time a user answers one.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Feb-13 9:04am

What, a school quiz requires a frame?!
And if this is a quiz, why are you asking a question? This is called cheating.
—SA

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Matthew Faithfull · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-10T07:24:00

I'm assuming you're working on a Console Application on Windows? If not then this will be completely wrong.
The console is a relatively small fixed sized grid 80x25 or perhaps 120x43 depending on how you've configured it.
If you're going to paint whole console screens then I would set up one or more 80 x N arrays in memory and write a 'blitter' function to write an array to the screen all in one go.
Win32 functions like FillConsoleOutputCharacter and Fill ConsoleOutputAttribute will help you there.
The trick to getting useful symbol characters out of which you can construct boxes and borders to appear is in setting the right Code Page. A Code Page is an old fashioned way of doing internationalisation on the console, essentially it swaps the extended ASCII character set (chars>127) for one containing accented characters or cyrillic or whatever. To get the symbols you want I think it's code page 852 you need which is an IBM character set definition from the early days of the PC. You'll have to check. The SetConsoleCP function will enable you to change it.
If you're going to be doing a lot of this sort of thing and don't want to write it all yourself from scratch you might consider searching for the pdcurses library, a Windows port of ncurses which is essentially a 'windowing' library for the console. It will have boxes, menus, popups, buttons etc. ncurses is part of the Linux Standard Base.