Re: conio.h --> window (int left, int top, int right, int bottom)

From: Daniel O'Connell [C# MVP] (onyxkirx_at_--NOSPAM--comcast.net)
Date: 09/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 03:19:07 -0500

"Maverick" <Maverick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1058730C-6273-41F5-B337-E4920D228306@microsoft.com...
> thx for the tips Daniel
> Assume the follow is the layout of a console screen
> ---------------------------------------------
> | |
> | |
> |------------------|------------------------|
> | x | |
> |------------------|------------------------|
> If I want to place a text on a certain area of the screen (for example
> Area
> X in the above console screen), I use window(int, int, int, int) method.
> Arguments are left, top, right and bottom coordinates of the window, and
> after calling this method cout (or Console.out.writeline in C#) will print
> in
> that console area until you create a new one. Point to remember:
> window-arguments are not pixel coordinates, they refer to 80 colums and 24
> rows of text. This makes placing text exactly inside (for example) an area
> somewhat difficult... Header file is conio.h.
>

I see. Unfortunatly I don't see anything within the framework that supports
this. I even looked for a .NET ncurses library and failed to find anything
useful(though I did find several arrogant linux blog owners, not quite sure
how that happened...). Anyway, you will probably have to use pinvoke and
implement it yourself.

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