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thwill

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Posted: 11:49am 23 Dec 2019

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Hi folks,

Two questions regarding text cursor control in MMBasic 4.5 on the CMM:

1) Is there any way of getting the current text cursor position?
2) Is there a control code to move the text cursor to the beginning of the current line?

Regards,

Tom

MMBasic for Linux, Game*Mite, CMM2 Welcome Tape, Creaky old text adventures

Geoffg

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Posted: 12:16pm 23 Dec 2019

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1) MM.HPOS and MM.VPOS will give you the position in pixels. POS will give you the current cursor position in the line in characters but I cannot think of anything that would return the line.

2) The carriage return character. ie, PRINT CHR$(13);

Geoff

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thwill

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Posted: 12:54pm 23 Dec 2019

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Thanks Geoff,

1) I had missed POS when I read the manual :-( I didn't need the line, and as it turned out I worked out a way of not needing the column either.

2) Right, I had tried CHR$(13) and it "didn't work" - seemed to do a newline instead, but I must have done something else wrong because when I tried it again it did <shrugs shoulders/>

Thanks again.

Tom

MMBasic for Linux, Game*Mite, CMM2 Welcome Tape, Creaky old text adventures

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