SetCursorPos

Set write cursor position.

Declaration

Source position: videoh.inc line 222

Description

SetCursorPos positions the cursor on the given position: Column NewCursorX and row NewCursorY. The origin of the screen is the upper left corner, and has coordinates (0,0).

The current position is stored in the CursorX and CursorY variables.

Errors

None.

See also

Example

program example2;

uses video,keyboard;

Var
  P,PP,D : Integer;
  K: TKeyEvent;

  Procedure PutSquare (P : INteger; C : Char);

  begin
    VideoBuf^[P]:=Ord(C)+($07 shl 8);
    VideoBuf^[P+ScreenWidth]:=Ord(c)+($07 shl 8);
    VideoBuf^[P+1]:=Ord(c)+($07 shl 8);
    VideoBuf^[P+ScreenWidth+1]:=Ord(c)+($07 shl 8);
  end;

begin
  InitVideo;
  InitKeyBoard;
  P:=0;
  PP:=-1;
  Repeat
    If PP<>-1 then
      PutSquare(PP,' ');
    PutSquare(P,'#');
    SetCursorPos(P Mod ScreenWidth,P div ScreenWidth);
    UpdateScreen(False);
    PP:=P;
    Repeat
      D:=0;
      K:=TranslateKeyEvent(GetKeyEvent);
      Case GetKeyEventCode(K) of
        kbdLeft : If (P Mod ScreenWidth)<>0 then
                   D:=-1;
        kbdUp : If P>=ScreenWidth then
                 D:=-ScreenWidth;
        kbdRight : If ((P+2) Mod ScreenWidth)<>0 then
                   D:=1;
        kbdDown : if (P<(VideoBufSize div 2)-(ScreenWidth*2)) then
                   D:=ScreenWidth;
      end;
    Until (D<>0) or (GetKeyEventChar(K)='q');
    P:=P+D;
  until GetKeyEventChar(K)='q';
  DoneKeyBoard;
  DoneVideo;
end.