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From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Help with C!!!!
Message-ID: <90208.104010UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 27 Jul 90 14:40:10 GMT
References: <28589@cc.usu.edu>
Organization: Penn State University
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In article <28589@cc.usu.edu>, SLMT9@cc.usu.edu says:
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>        This is a question to all of you C guru's out there. Is there a way
>to place the CURSOR in a predetermined spot on the screen. Say move it from
>the bottom right hand corner to the upper left to write in that location again
>something like the LOCATE command in basic.

If you think about it, this isn't really a C question, it is an Amiga
question.  Here's ibe Amigoid way of thinking about it.

1.  Do ypou really mean "screen" or do you mean a window on the screen?
    Most i/o is to and from windows.

2.  On the Amiga, TEXT is just a kind of GRAPHICS, so you want to open
    the graphics library and use its many many functions to do your
    work for you.

3.  Every window w has a drawing structure w->RPort.  The drawing and
    text routines all need it.

4.  To move to position x,y (in pixels) try
         Move(&w->RPort, x, y);.

5.  Put text there with
         Text(&w->RPort, "Hello, world.", 13) ;

6.  and so on.

Good luck.