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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Request For info How to Upgrade, Input in Graphics Mode
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.123721.20212@uwasa.fi>
Date: 22 Mar 91 12:37:21 GMT
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In article <17694@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> mbmarlow@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Talien     ) writes:
:
>2)  I'm writing a moderate sized program that prompts for
>    input while in graphics mode.  Specifically, I am
>    filling string fields in a record, which is than added to
>    a linked list.  What is the proper way to read in strings
>    while in graphics mode?
>         What I am doing is creatinga window in the middle of
>    the screen and using outtext to display several feilds that
>    I want the user to fill.  I am unable to use readln, because
>    than the cursor is at the top of the screen, ie not in the
>    predetermined spot in the window and is no longer in the font
>    I am using.
:

Although it won't give you the code, the graphics demo in
/pc/ts/tsdemo14.arc might give you some idea what text handling in
the graphics mode may look like.  Available from our archives.

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