Re: Newbie: display control

["David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>]

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From: "svaa" <svaa@ciberpiula.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: March 01, 2003 5:27 PM
Subject: Newbie: display control


> Hello:
>   Is there any library to control display cursor etc, that has become
> an standard "de facto" in Ada 95?.
> 
> I'm a newbie in Ada, but I think it's strange that Ada RM, that covers
> a lot of stuff, doesn't have a screen/cursor/keyboard standard spec.
> the user interface in Ada 95 is sad (well, I would say missing).
> 
> I know there are a lot of terminals, and depends a lot upon hardware.
> But the first Ada was born in 1983, not in 1960, terminals were then
> an important part of computers world. I don't mean Ada should have a
> full GUI, but at least a "clear screen", and "set cursor position"
> procedure. Or was the main goal of Ada embedded systems?
Without OS support for a particular terminal discipline, there's not
much that a language can do.

For example, if you're running a version of Windows that works with
ANSI,SYS (i.e., win9x) you can use Mike Feldman's package, as
Tom Moran suggested.  It also will work with *nix systems with
appropriate terminal configuration.

What other language (and under what OS) provides the type of operations
you deem are missing from Ada?   

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