Re: GPS 4.4.1. ADA 95: Calling ASCII codes for ESC and display row colum control

[Michael A <michael.m.ayres@gmail.com>]

On Jan 10, 9:19 am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:44:19 -0800 (PST), Michael A wrote:
> > I know this topic was disucssed in the 90's on the forum and is an old
> > question, but. I am trying to control the display row,col for terminal
> > output of my ADA 95 simple program. I have tried several ways but to
> > no avail:
>
> > -- keep out put of a loop at line 20 column 20
>
> > put (ASCII.ESC & "[" & "20" & ";" & "20" & "H")  ;
>
> > put (ASCII.ESC&"[20;20H")  ;
> > put (ada.Characters.latin_1.ESC&"20"&";"&"20H");
>
> > put (Character'val (91) & "20;20H" );
>
> > I get the literal out put on the screen " <-20;20H " but not keeping
> > the output on line 20, col 20.
>
> > I do get put(ascii.bel); to ring the bell OK.
>
> What makes you think that GPS' run-panel emulates VT100?
>
> And, is it the GPS GUI where your output goes?
>
> Anyway GPS is GTK-based. Presumably, it uses the GTK text buffer object
> where the program standard output goes. So you should look here:
>
> http://www.adacore.com/wp-content/files/auto_update/gtkada-docs/gtkad...
>
> to learn for how to control it and its view:
>
> http://www.adacore.com/wp-content/files/auto_update/gtkada-docs/gtkad...
>
> If you mean something else, like console output, then depending on the OS
> and the terminal emulator you might need different control sequences. If
> you want to use the VT100 ones, you should get a VT100 emulator.
>
> BTW, Windows' cmd.exe does not emulate VT100.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Dmitry A. Kazakovhttp://www.dmitry-kazakov.de- Hide quoted text -
>
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Thanks. My output is not to the GPS GUI but to a Windows command
window. I suspected the controls could be different in different
enviornments. I will check out your recommendations.

Tks