Re: DOS or Windows Console I/O

[Ross Higson <rossh@zip.com.au>]

If you want a fairly complete screen package for 98/NT/2000 etc, I have 
an Ada Terminal Emulator package that I use to replace the Windows/DOS 
console I/O subsystem. It supports font attributes and colors, resizable 
screens and views, addressable screen coordinates, scrolling regions etc 
etc. It supports ANSI control sequences, but you don't need to use them 
- a full Ada API is included, as well as a replacement for Text_IO that 
is good enough for many applications.

Requires GNAT 3.14 or later, and also GWindows 1.1.

You can get it at http://www.zipworld.com.au/~rossh.

Ross Higson.

Jeffrey Carter wrote:

> Stephane Richard wrote:
>
>>
>> From what I've read in the Ada95 RM and on multiple source examples, 
>> I dont
>> believe Ada95, be it for DOS or Windows Console Text mode, does 
>> colors, or
>> does rectangular scrolling, or nothing of the sort.  (Pascal programmers
>> will recognize the commands I'm looking for in Ada :-) and for that 
>> matter,
>> they will also know I'm looking for a Crt Library equivalent for ada 
>> :-)..
>
>
> I've used Turbo Pascal, and know what you're talking about, but 
> they're not part of Pascal.
>
> If you're using DOS or Win 95/98/ME, you can load ANSI.SYS and use 
> ANSI escape sequences to do what you want. This has the advantage that 
> it's portable to most text windows on other systems, such a Xterms on 
> UNIX systems.
>
> If you're using NT/2k/XP, that won't work. You need to get something 
> that makes the NT calls. For that I've used NT_Console by Jerry van 
> Dijk. The URL is not included with the distribution, but I suspect a 
> little work with Google should find it for you.
>