Re: TTY question

Rick,

After some 'little experiments', my suggestion is to give PAGE the same functionality as the 'clear page' menu button: remove all history. This makes the get-xy, at-xy coordinates always physically 0,0 based.

As Elizabeth said, it's important for the kind of fast screen updating we do that the origin DOESN'T CHANGE when the current line 0 is scrolled off the screen. (We only rewrite changed table entries.) This means that some updates may not be seen until the screen is scrolled back, but they are in the right place.

The downside is that one must turn logging on prior to thinking you might want to save the previous stuff when you use PAGE. (Maybe the default should be LOGGING ON with a generic console.log file in the ??? directory?) It would require clarifying documentation (which says nothing about it now).

My 2 cents,
John

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Received on Thu May 08 2008 - 23:47:29 PDT