Re: clearing a screen in ada? (new to ada)

["Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com>]

Riyaz Mansoor wrote:
> 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?

There is *always* a way to do whatever you want with Ada. Its a language
like any other language and can be made to produce every possible
permutation of bits that can be held in a processor's instruction
memory.

The problem you are looking at here is really an OS or Peripherial
problem, not an Ada problem. The questipon is: What terminal or terminal
emulator are you using and what commands must it be sent to make it do
the things you want to do?

I'll bet if you find some documentation on the terminal emulation you
are using that somewhere it specifies what character combinations you
have to send it to get it to perform various functions. Once you know
what those are, the problem is pretty simple. You just need to send
those character combinations the same way you'd send any other
characters: rely on Text_IO.

If you can't find documentation for the terminal emulator, ask here
again and specify exactly what you are using and I'm sure someone will
know.

MDC
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