From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a83ac04244a76ea9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk) Subject: Re: Terminal IO, and menus Date: 1999/03/31 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 460965325 References: <7drb1p$48k$1@nw001t.infi.net> Organization: * JerryWare *, Leiden, Holland Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Heath Isler (isler@gfherald.infi.net) wrote: : My question is is there a way in the stadard packages to Clear the Screen : and postition the cursor in a specific location, i.e. Locate_Cursor (x => : 10, y =>15); ? I am plan on using this for menus and data input. This is an inherentely OS bounded question. For DOS, you can do this with the conio binding that comes with EZ2LOAD, for Win32, NT_Console does this sort of thing. For linux there is the curses binding, etc. Two years ago I tried to get people to agree on a singe console control package standard, but there was, alas, no interest in this... -- -- Jerry van Dijk | Leiden, Holland -- Team Ada | jdijk@acm.org -- see http://stad.dsl.nl/~jvandyk