I want to draw horizontal line (HLine)

I want to draw horizontal line (U+2500), just like the border of Window/FrameView, I use following code (shortened for brevity):

    private Label _topSeparatorLabel;

    public Window Win { get; private set; }

    public void Init( Toplevel top )
    {
      Win = new Window( "Application Name Setup" )
      {
        X = 0,
        Y = 0,
        Width = Dim.Fill(),
        Height = Dim.Fill() - 1
      };
    }

    public void Setup()
    {
      _topSeparatorLabel = new Label()
      {
        X = 0,
        Y = 5,
        Width = Dim.Width( Win ) - 2,
        Height = 1
      };
      _topSeparatorLabel.DrawContent += TopSeparatorLabel_DrawContent;

      Win.Add( _topSeparatorLabel );
    }

    private void TopSeparatorLabel_DrawContent( Rect obj )
    {
      _topSeparatorLabel.Text = new string( '\u2500', _topSeparatorLabel.Bounds.Width );
    }

The idea is I need some kind of Line control which I can put anywhere to separate content in Window. Since there is none, I think to simply use Label and give its Text with repeated value of \u2500.

Is this a good approach, or there will be a problem here? Thanks in advance.

[tznind]

Here is a HorizontalLineView class I just created now for you 😃 this should be much more elegant and maintainable than using Label.

public class HorizontalLineView : View {

	public HorizontalLineView ()
	{
		CanFocus = false;
		Width = Dim.Fill ();
		Height = 1;
	}
	public override void Redraw (Rect bounds)
	{
		base.Redraw (bounds);

		Move (0, 0);
		Driver.SetAttribute (ColorScheme.Normal);

		var hLineWidth = Math.Max(1,Rune.ColumnWidth (Driver.HLine));

		for (int x = 0; x< bounds.Width;x += hLineWidth) {
			Move (x, 0);
			Driver.AddRune (Driver.HLine);
		}
	}
}

Heres some code to test it:

Application.Init ();

var window = new Window () { Width = Dim.Fill (), Height = Dim.Fill () };

window.Add (new Label ("hey, I'm above") { X = 0, Y = 0 });
window.Add (new HorizontalLineView () { X = 0, Y = 1 });
window.Add (new Label ("And I'm below") { X = 0, Y = 2 });

Application.Run (window);
Application.Shutdown ();

[ichan-akira]

@ichan-akira if @tznind accept my challenge, please reopens this issue again. Thanks.

Sure! I prefer to use Terminal.Gui generic control/view as well! That will be excellent 👍 (For time being I will use the custom made view by @tznind 😸 )