I'm trying to port some old Turbo Pascal programs to Windows 32-bit console utilities. They write directly to the screen buffer, which in the DOS world an array of Word starting at ptr(SegB800,0) (for a color display) or ptr(SegB000,0) for a monochrome one. Now, as Windows console utilities, I don't suppose it's so easy to get a pointer to the upper left corner of the console window, or is it?
Anu suggestions would be appreciated.
- Rich
Unit Video is exactly what you are looking for - it lets you write/read characters and their attributes (text color + background + blink attribute) directly to/from a buffer in memory and then use simple UpdateScreen procedure to "flush" contents of this memory buffer to the console. This way you can write console programs using the same approach as under DOS (with these ptr(SegB800,0) / ptr(SegB000,0)) BUT it works under many platforms - in particular, it works under Win32.
For more information, look at the FPC documentation for this unit.
Regards, -- Michalis Kamburelis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.camelot.homedns.org/~michalis/
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