#!/bin/bash
# Draw-box.sh: Drawing a box using ASCII characters.

# Script by Stefano Palmeri, with minor editing by document author.
# Minor edits suggested by Jim Angstadt.
# Used in the ABS Guide with permission.


######################################################################
###  draw_box function doc  ###

#  The "draw_box" function lets the user
#+ draw a box in a terminal.       
#
#  Usage: draw_box ROW COLUMN HEIGHT WIDTH [COLOR] 
#  ROW and COLUMN represent the position        
#+ of the upper left angle of the box you're going to draw.
#  ROW and COLUMN must be greater than 0
#+ and less than current terminal dimension.
#  HEIGHT is the number of rows of the box, and must be &gt; 0. 
#  HEIGHT + ROW must be &lt;= than current terminal height. 
#  WIDTH is the number of columns of the box and must be &gt; 0.
#  WIDTH + COLUMN must be &lt;= than current terminal width.
#
# E.g.: If your terminal dimension is 20x80,
#  draw_box 2 3 10 45 is good
#  draw_box 2 3 19 45 has bad HEIGHT value (19+2 > 20)
#  draw_box 2 3 18 78 has bad WIDTH value (78+3 > 80)
#
#  COLOR is the color of the box frame.
#  This is the 5th argument and is optional.
#  0=black 1=red 2=green 3=tan 4=blue 5=purple 6=cyan 7=white.
#  If you pass the function bad arguments,
#+ it will just exit with code 65,
#+ and no messages will be printed on stderr.
#
#  Clear the terminal before you start to draw a box.
#  The clear command is not contained within the function.
#  This allows the user to draw multiple boxes, even overlapping ones.

###  end of draw_box function doc  ### 
######################################################################

draw_box(){

#=============#
HORZ="-"
VERT="|"
CORNER_CHAR="+"

MINARGS=4
E_BADARGS=65
#=============#


if [ $# -lt "$MINARGS" ]; then          # If args are less than 4, exit.
    exit $E_BADARGS
fi

# Looking for non digit chars in arguments.
# Probably it could be done better (exercise for the reader?).
if echo $@ | tr -d [:blank:] | tr -d [:digit:] | grep . &amp;> /dev/null; then
   exit $E_BADARGS
fi

BOX_HEIGHT=`expr $3 - 1`   #  -1 correction needed because angle char "+"
BOX_WIDTH=`expr $4 - 1`    #+ is a part of both box height and width.
T_ROWS=`tput lines`        #  Define current terminal dimension 
T_COLS=`tput cols`         #+ in rows and columns.
         
if [ $1 -lt 1 ] || [ $1 -gt $T_ROWS ]; then    #  Start checking if arguments
   exit $E_BADARGS                             #+ are correct.
fi
if [ $2 -lt 1 ] || [ $2 -gt $T_COLS ]; then
   exit $E_BADARGS
fi
if [ `expr $1 + $BOX_HEIGHT + 1` -gt $T_ROWS ]; then
   exit $E_BADARGS
fi
if [ `expr $2 + $BOX_WIDTH + 1` -gt $T_COLS ]; then
   exit $E_BADARGS
fi
if [ $3 -lt 1 ] || [ $4 -lt 1 ]; then
   exit $E_BADARGS
fi                                 # End checking arguments.

plot_char(){                       # Function within a function.
   echo -e "\E[${1};${2}H"$3
}

echo -ne "\E[3${5}m"               # Set box frame color, if defined.

# start drawing the box

count=1                                         #  Draw vertical lines using
for (( r=$1; count&lt;=$BOX_HEIGHT; r++)); do      #+ plot_char function.
  plot_char $r $2 $VERT
  let count=count+1
done 

count=1
c=`expr $2 + $BOX_WIDTH`
for (( r=$1; count&lt;=$BOX_HEIGHT; r++)); do
  plot_char $r $c $VERT
  let count=count+1
done 

count=1                                        #  Draw horizontal lines using
for (( c=$2; count&lt;=$BOX_WIDTH; c++)); do      #+ plot_char function.
  plot_char $1 $c $HORZ
  let count=count+1
done 

count=1
r=`expr $1 + $BOX_HEIGHT`
for (( c=$2; count&lt;=$BOX_WIDTH; c++)); do
  plot_char $r $c $HORZ
  let count=count+1
done 

plot_char $1 $2 $CORNER_CHAR                   # Draw box angles.
plot_char $1 `expr $2 + $BOX_WIDTH` $CORNER_CHAR
plot_char `expr $1 + $BOX_HEIGHT` $2 $CORNER_CHAR
plot_char `expr $1 + $BOX_HEIGHT` `expr $2 + $BOX_WIDTH` $CORNER_CHAR

echo -ne "\E[0m"             #  Restore old colors.

P_ROWS=`expr $T_ROWS - 1`    #  Put the prompt at bottom of the terminal.

echo -e "\E[${P_ROWS};1H"
}      


# Now, let's try drawing a box.
clear                       # Clear the terminal.
R=2      # Row
C=3      # Column
H=10     # Height
W=45     # Width 
col=1    # Color (red)
draw_box $R $C $H $W $col   # Draw the box.

exit 0

# Exercise:
# --------
# Add the option of printing text within the drawn box.
