[Gambas-user] text interface apps

[Jean-Yves F. Barbier]

Rolf-Werner Eilert a écrit :
> Tomas Eroles i Forner schrieb:
...
>> @2,5 SAY "Hello, what is your name?: " GET w_name
>> to write on the coordinates 2,5 on the screen the phrase Hello, what is...
>> Is it possible to do in GAMBAS?
> 
> Linux terminal coordinates can have more than 80x25 characters (and 
> mostly have). So it would be necessary to determine the size of the 
> terminal prior to be able to set sensible coordinates. This is missing, 
> as far as I know.

Na, use: stty -a 
it'll list all specs about your console and have much more power, as you can
entirely reconfigure TTYs with it.
 
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> And yes: I don't think the special "graphical characters" like in DOS 
> (ASCII > 128) exist on a Linux terminal, do they? So it would be 
> somewhat difficult to build "mask" like things. Though Midnight 
> Commander can do this, how does it handle this? Maybe special fonts for 
> terminal output? And top has lines, too...

Na, they exists (try the 'mc' commander), however it's not easy to correctly setup
and good docs aren't very easy to find.

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