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From: Alfred Hilscher <Alfred.Hilscher@icn.siemens.de>
Subject: Re: clearing a screen in ada? (new to ada)
Date: 2000/03/07
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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?