From: Rory <rjloupe@hti.com>
Subject: Re: Can I overwrite existing text w/o clearing the screen?
Date: 1998/11/18
Date: 1998-11-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36534B4B.DF664750@hti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3650f8a9.0@silver.truman.edu
Josh,
If you are working in a MS Windows environment and using a console window
look at this site - http://stad.dsl.nl/~jvandyk/#CONSOLE .
Josh Highley wrote:
> I've wrote a task to output the time. I want to continually update the
> time every second in the lower right hand corner of the screen without
> causing a new line and without clearing the entire screen. I've tried
> set_col and set_line but it causes a new line. I've been successful
> using AdaGraph v0.5 but its other input and output operations are very
> limited. Basically, can I overwrite existing text without clearing the
> entire screen or causing a new line? Hopefully, still having Ada's
> input and output commands still available.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh Highley
> joshhighley@hotmail.com
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1998-11-17 0:00 Can I overwrite existing text w/o clearing the screen? Josh Highley
1998-11-17 0:00 ` Carl Bauman
1998-11-17 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-11-18 0:00 ` Rory [this message]
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