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From: jbb@mvaxcs1.cse.nau.edu (Jon Bonnell)
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Subject: Reading Graphics in TP Pascal
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In article <1991Jun14.150309.5126@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> stone@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Glenn Stone) writes:
>There must an easy way to do this but I seem to have a mental block.  
>I'm writing a graphics mode equivalent of READLN(StringVariable) in
>TP 5.5.  This loop reads characters and tacks them onto a string
>called T.  The problem is in dealing with the backspace; I want the
>pointer to back up and erase the last character, but the ' ' in
>graphics mode doesn't do this.  I need the equivalent of ClrEol.
>How do you do it?  Thanks in advance...
>  Glenn Stone                                      BITNET: stone@cunixc
>  Columbia University            INTERNET: stone@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
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Try the Unit CRTG.ZIP on Garbo.  It redefines the CRT Unit of
Turbo Pascal in Graphics Mode (combination of CRT and GRAPH).
 
I dont know if it will fix this exact problem but you might want to
take a look instead of reinventing another solution.


-- 
Jon Bonnell                "Like I always say --
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