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From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
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Subject: Re: modifying color of "Ada.Text_IO.Put"
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* Stefan Kombrink wrote:
>  in C and other programming languages it's simply possible to change
>the background and foreground color of text plotted on screen.

No. There is no standard library call to do this. (or do I miss something?)
But there are additional libraries to do it in a portable way, i.e. curses.

>But GNAT doesn't seem to offer procedures to handle that.

Use the additional library [n]curses (www.gnu.org/.../curses/).
A Ada95 binding is included.

>Moving the cursor may work with "Set_Col" and "Set_Line", but i need

It failed miserably on my terminal. It can not move backwards.

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