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From: kodiak@amiga.UUCP (Robert R. Burns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: RAW: windows
Summary: There's an escape sequence for character bounds
Keywords: RAW: window size
Message-ID: <2198@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 88 16:58:28 GMT
References: <5997@well.UUCP> <1162@pur-phy> <3881@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: kodiak@tooter.UUCP (Robert Burns)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA
Lines: 18

In article <3881@cbmvax.UUCP> carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS) writes:
>In article <1162@pur-phy> ng@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Nicholas J. Giordano) writes:
>>
>>I am working on a program which opens a raw: window for input and
>>output.  Even though I make it a certain size when I open it, it is possible
>>for the user to change the size later.  How can my program determine the
>>actual size? 
>
>Check out the ConUnit stuff in this example.

But if you just want to know the character bounds, write "\233 q" or "\033[ q"
to the console, and read back and parse something that looks like
"\2331;1;24;77 r" where the four numbers 1;1;24;77 are the row/col one-based
indices of the upper right and lower left corners.  Currently, the upper left
is always 1;1, and the lower right varies depending on the window size
(in this example 24 rows by 77 columns).

- Kodiak