[fpc-pascal]Re: Reading the screen

[Gabor DEAK JAHN]

At 09/29/2000 06:29, you wrote: 

Dear Jim,

> Does anyone know how to read characters from a text-mode win32/go32 
> program? I need to gotoxy and read some information, but I can't figure out
how. 

Using ReadConsoleOutput, Win32 provides this function just for this purpose. 
You can read a character, a line or even a rectangular region with it. A 
related function, GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo can be used to get the size of 
the screen or the current position of the cursor. Naturally, there is a 
WriteConsoleOutput also to write to the console window.


Bye,
   Gábor

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