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| Posted: 07:02am 29 Aug 2020 |
After the print command in a program the cursor moves down for the next line. Is there any way to keep the cursor on the word just printed, such as printing a character to emulate the up arrow. I seem to remember that in MS BASIC following the printed word with a semicolon like this worked:
PRINT "hello";
Senior?! Whatever it says, I'm a complete and utter beginner...
Guru
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| Posted: 07:05am 29 Aug 2020 |
You remember correctly
The semi-colon is your friend
CLS
PRINT "hello";
PRINT " there!"
PRINT "hello";
PRINT " there!"
Jim
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| Posted: 07:19am 29 Aug 2020 |
I tried it TJ and it did not work for me!
PRINT@(100,200)"hello";
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| Posted: 07:29am 29 Aug 2020 |
Works for me.
CLS
PRINT@(100,200)"hello";
PRINT " there!"
PRINT@(100,200)"hello";
PRINT " there!"
Guru
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| Posted: 07:31am 29 Aug 2020 |
Worked for me, but you need to print another thing to see it's on the same line, did you do that?
PRINT@(100,200)"hello";
Print "same line";
I'm surprised we didn't need a space before "hello".
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| Posted: 07:31am 29 Aug 2020 |
Hi Herry,
Can you post a photo of what you get?
I get the correct result from Jim's example?
Kind Regards
Mick
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| Posted: 07:34am 29 Aug 2020 |
Maybe it's because I am using:
N$ = "hello"
print @(100,200)N$;
When I repeat that line, the cursor moves down (the screen moves up)
(Thanks for bearing with me!)
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| Posted: 07:35am 29 Aug 2020 |
Works properly as expected
CLS
PRINT @(100,100)"hello";
PRINT " there!"
PRINT @(100,100)"hello";
PRINT " there!"
Guru
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| Posted: 07:40am 29 Aug 2020 |
Start with just the short demo program we gave you.
There must be something else you are doing that is causing an extra PRINT statement.
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| Posted: 07:44am 29 Aug 2020 |
Hi Herry,
Can you post EXACTLY the lines of code that are causing you grief, and if possible a picture of what is happening ?..
Even your simple example above looks fine on my CMM2
Kind Regards
Mick
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| Posted: 07:50am 29 Aug 2020 |
TJ and BM
Thanks. Yes. I guessed something else was causing it. I'll struggle on for bit first now I can be sure about the ;
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| Posted: 08:03am 29 Aug 2020 |
If you're using @(100,200) on a 200 line screen like mode 3, that could do it.
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| Posted: 07:44pm 29 Aug 2020 |
No, largest default screen setting. Found the problem. Elsewhere in the program! Thanks to all.
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| Posted: 06:38am 31 Aug 2020 |
Are you typing this from the commandline ? OR in a program.
The ";" forces the cursor to stay at that location, ready for the next print.
But if you type this command from the commandline, and type <enter> the whole screen may scroll one line (depending where you are typing).
If this is happening in a program, that will not happen, and you will get the text as described by TassyJim and matherp.
So, type "F4" (the editor), and type the 2 lines that where proposed.
Then type "F2" to run them.
Success..
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| Posted: 06:40am 31 Aug 2020 |
All fixed!