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Chapter 4
Guided Tour of Built-In vty-ui
Widgets
vty-ui provides a broad set of widgets for controlling layout, presenting text, and interacting with the user. In this chapter we’ll cover these built-in widgets and their APIs at a
high level. With this knowledge you should be able to bring them together to build rich
interfaces. As always, consult the API documentation for some of the finer details.
Naturally, we may not be able to provide meaningful examples expressed purely in terms
of a single widget type and may need to mention other widgets; in those cases, see the
relevant sections.
4.1
Borders
The Borders module provides a number border widgets which can be created with the
following functions:
• vBorder – creates a vertical border of type Widget VBorder
• hBorder – creates a horizontal border of type Widget HBorder
• bordered – creates a bordered box of type Widget (Bordered a) around a widget of type Widget a
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