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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!kth.se!kjell
- From: kjell@elixir.e.kth.se (Kjell Rilbe)
- Subject: Re: Displaying many discrete screens
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.110225.17706@kth.se>
- Sender: usenet@kth.se (Usenet)
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- Organization: Dept. of EE, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- References: <2A91A4FC.10661@orion.oac.uci.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 11:02:25 GMT
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- In article <2A91A4FC.10661@orion.oac.uci.edu> handbook@orion.oac.uci.edu (Handbook) writes:
- >Hi,
- >
- >Can anyone suggest ways to display screenfuls of information to users,
- >without using a million and one writeln statements?
- >[Rest of problem deleted]
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- Maybe you could make your own screen output procedure? Are you running
- TURBO Pascal on a PC? Then it's not very difficult to do it.
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- Then you can store the text as a looooong string or ARRAY OF Char, and
- design a format for moving to a new position on the screen &c.
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- For example character 1 could mean that the next two characters
- are screen coordinates for the following text, until the next chr(1) ... &c.
- And the string is terminated with a chr(0).
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- Mail me if you like the idea, but need help implementing it!
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- /Kjell Rilbe
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