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- From: rls@tip.wedge.nt.com (Robert L. Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: OS2 Window Screen Control
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.132703.14239@rock.concert.net>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 13:27:03 GMT
- Sender: news@rock.concert.net
- Organization: Northern Telecom Inc., RTP, NC
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- Originator: rls@
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- I have a dandy full-screen UNIX xterm editor I'd like to port to
- OS/2, to run in an OS/2 window or in OS/2 full screen. But after
- searching the C-Set/2 documentation, both hard copy and online, I can
- find no description of low-level screen system calls usable for such
- actions as clearing the screen, setting the text cursor position,
- opening up a blank line, etc.
- The "migration" calls, putch() and getch(), would be perfect for
- outputting characters and inputting keystrokes -- including function
- keys! -- without echo, but I can find nothing for fine control of the
- screen. Can anyone advise of documentation for such functions?
- In a DOS window under OS/2 it is still possible to issue BIOS
- Interrupt 10h for this purpose. Is 10h also supported in an OS/2
- window? If anyone can answer that question it might save a lot of
- trouble (I have the Borland TASM for DOS, which claims to support 32
- bit code, but from previous articles here, using its .OBJ files under
- OS/2 looks to be an involved undertaking).
-
- Regards, rLs
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