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From: jkjl@munnari.oz (John Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Clearing to the end of the line...
Summary: clearing lines with blanks
Keywords: cursor handling, porting
Message-ID: <2337@munnari.oz>
Date: 2 Sep 88 03:20:23 GMT
References: <9063@pur-ee.UUCP>
Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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In article <9063@pur-ee.UUCP>, mendozag@pur-ee.UUCP (Grado) writes:
> 
>    I am porting a program from the PC to the MAC and everything seems
>  fine thanks to THINK C. However, I need a function to clear a line to
>  the end after the cursor position.
>    I know that with getxpos() and getypos() I can get the position
>  of the cursor but I havetrouble translating that to line coordinates.
>  I would appreciate any help I can get.
> 

	I had to implement a similar function when i ported gnuchess to
the mac. Just do a 
	for (i = getxpos(); i < 80 ; i++)
		cputs(" ");

	This is just off my head, so i might have got the syntatic sugar
wrong...

>    Thanks in advance
> 
>    mendozag@ecn.purdue.edu
>    ...ihnp4!pur-ee!mendozag


	John Lim