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to: JUD MCCRANIE
from: FRANCOIS PIETTE
date: 1997-03-03 21:40:00
subject: RE: WINCRT

Salut Jud McCranie !
Dans un message de Jud McCranie dat‚ du 28 Feb 97  20:23:00 il ‚tait dit:
  FP>> WinCrt is not needed with D2 because D2 use the native console mode
  FP>> which is built in every Win32 system. Just compile your D2 application
  FP>> by enabling the linker option 'generate a console app' and suddenly
  FP>> all your writeln and readln procedure are working fine in a text
  FP>> window.
  JM> As far as I can tell, though, console mode only scrolls
  JM> like ateletype. That is, you can't change the text or
  JM> backgroundcolors, you can't clear the screen, you can't GOTOxy to
  JM> aparticular location on the screen, etc. If you can do these things in
  JM> D2 then please let me know how.
You are wrong. You can do all these stuff and a lot more.
Just read the on-line help that comes with D2 !
For example, look for the keyword 'SetConsoleCursorPosition' and then 
choose 'group' to see all other console related functions.
Amiti‚s,
{-Francois Piette-}
francois.piette@ping.be
http://www.rtfm.be/fpiette
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