Needing basic info on print position control

Needing basic info on print position control

[Andrew Lietzow]

Dear List,

Newbie looking for info on print position and screen position control.  I 
want the system to display something to an exact location on the screen, or 
on a printer.  

With Business Basic, one says something like:
print @(20,15) -- for screen control
and 
print @(20) for position control within the current line -- for print control

What does one do in gcc for this functionality?  I realize that this may be 
totally different for the screen when using proportional fonts but for a 
printer, if you are printing to forms, you need to use a non-proportional 
font in order to get the columns to line up properly.   

TIA,
Andrew L.

Re: Needing basic info on print position control

[Stuart Longland]

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Andrew Lietzow wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> Newbie looking for info on print position and screen position control.  I
> want the system to display something to an exact location on the
screen, or
> on a printer.
>
> With Business Basic, one says something like:
> print @(20,15) -- for screen control
> and
> print @(20) for position control within the current line -- for print
control
>
	For console (screen) under UNIX, most consoles here understand ANSI
escape sequences.  For example:

	^[[r;cH 	will position your cursor on row r, column C.  The r;c may be
ommitted, in which case, it will place the cursor at the top right hand
corner (row 1, column 1).

	You also have relative controls in ANSI:

	^[[xA	Up x rows
	^[[xB	Down x rows
	^[[xC	Right x columns
	^[[xD	Left x columns

	If x is ommitted, it's assumed to be 1.

	With the above examples, remember to replace ^[ with the ESCAPE
character (ASCII Character 27), so in a printf statement, to go to the
8th row, 20th column, use the following:

	printf("\033[8;20Hwhatever text goes here");

	Or with your example:
	printf("\033[15;20H");

	As for the printer, I think you'll find the backspace (^H) and space
are your friends.  ^H will go back a space, single space will go forward
a space.

	So in your example, make sure there's 15 spaces before your desired
text, like this:

	printf("                    Text starts here");

	Then, say, to go back to column 5, do this: (^H = character 8 or \010)
	printf("\010\010\010\010\010New text starts here");

	There are probably more efficient ways of doing this, this is what I know.
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