From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,88a551d32010f53f,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com Subject: Re: clearing a screen in ada? (new to ada) Date: 2000/03/06 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 593978338 References: <38c3fb98$0$16303@motown.iinet.net.au> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: news.pacbell.net 952378844 206.170.2.197 (Mon, 06 Mar 2000 13:40:44 PST) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 13:40:44 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >comand like CLS to clear the screen and also the LOCATE type commands for If you are running ANSI.SYS, you can use Mike Feldman's package. Look at www.adapower.com If you don't find it directly, I'm sure it's present in his "Dining Philosophers" example. >not being able to move the cursor back up the screen when I have >drawn the box is making this hell If you can't/don't use ANSI.SYS, but are doing strictly output, how about writing into an array (1 .. 24, 1 .. 80) of Character, putting whatever, wherever, and then finally writing all its lines to the screen.