Re: Ms-dos windows

[tmoran@acm.org]

If you want to position and color text, there are three ways to do it:
1) If you are using a version of Windows that supports ANSI.SYS, you
can send escape codes and treat the screen as an ANSI terminal.
Look at www.adapower.com to find Mike Feldman's packages.
2) In a true Windows app, text is not written with Ada.Text_IO, nor
keystrokes gotten with Get_Immediate.  It's handled quite differently
with MS Windows API calls.  This can be substantially simplified by
using a thick binding such as CLAW (www.rrsoftware.com - I'm one of
the authors).  The last time I looked, though, the demo OA version
had limits that prevented it from compiling even the small demo CLAW
version.
3) If you are really emulating DOS, you can stick character and control
codes wherever you want in screen RAM.  jvandyk (sp?) has packages
for that.  Take a look in www.adapower.com