[fpc-pascal]Direct writes to console buffer

Rich Pasco pasco at acm.org
Sun Aug 3 16:27:49 CEST 2003


Karl Brandt wrote:

> Grab the win32 API documentation and take a look at Console Functions:
> ReadConsoleOutput, WriteConsoleOutput ...

Yes, I saw those, thanks..  But they don't support treating the screen
buffer as an linear array of words, starting with a pointer to the first
(upper left corner).  For new code, these would be the way to go, but
for porting my old code, they're too high-level.

     - Rich





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