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Herry

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Posted: 07:02am 29 Aug 2020

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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";

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Posted: 07:05am 29 Aug 2020

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You remember correctly
The semi-colon is your friend

CLS
PRINT "hello";
PRINT " there!"

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Posted: 07:19am 29 Aug 2020

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TassyJim said You remember correctly
The semi-colon is your friend

CLS
PRINT "hello";
PRINT " there!"

Jim

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

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Works for me.

CLS
PRINT@(100,200)"hello";
PRINT " there!"

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Posted: 07:31am 29 Aug 2020

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Herry said

TassyJim said You remember correctly
The semi-colon is your friend

CLS
PRINT "hello";
PRINT " there!"

Jim

I tried it TJ and it did not work for me!
PRINT@(100,200)"hello";

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

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Hi Herry,

Can you post a photo of what you get?

I get the correct result from Jim's example?

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TassyJim said Works for me.

CLS
PRINT@(100,200)"hello";
PRINT " there!"

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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Works properly as expected

CLS
PRINT @(100,100)"hello";
PRINT " there!"

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Posted: 07:40am 29 Aug 2020

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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

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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

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Posted: 07:50am 29 Aug 2020

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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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Herry said 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 ;

If you're using @(100,200) on a 200 line screen like mode 3, that could do it.

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capsikin said

Herry said 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 ;

If you're using @(100,200) on a 200 line screen like mode 3, that could do it.

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

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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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All fixed!

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