From: Alfred Hilscher <Alfred.Hilscher@icn.siemens.de>
Subject: Re: clearing a screen in ada? (new to ada)
Date: 2000/03/07
Date: 2000-03-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38C50360.50FEA920@icn.siemens.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8a19bg$r6n$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au
Another solution: Ok, it not a good way, but what do you think about
directly writing in screen memory (WinNT emulates it at B800:0) ? But
you would have to write your own screen handling from scratch.
Riyaz Mansoor wrote:
>
> > >not being able to move the cursor back up the screen when I have
> > >drawn the box is making this hell
> > If you can't/don't use ANSI.SYS, but are doing strictly output,
> > how about writing into an array (1 .. 24, 1 .. 80) of Character,
> > putting whatever, wherever, and then finally writing all its
> > lines to the screen.
>
> but wouldn't this put the cursor at the start of the next screen? more
> precisely we'd lose the top line as it scrolls down. is there just no way
> that ADA can place cursor's on non ANSI standard desktops?
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-05 0:00 clearing a screen in ada? (new to ada) Nigel
2000-03-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Nigel
2000-03-06 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Riyaz Mansoor
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher [this message]
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-03-07 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Ade Vickers
2000-03-08 0:00 ` Riyaz Mansoor
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