Re: [Oasis OLC][Code]

From: Daniel Koepke (dkoepke@california.com)
Date: 02/23/97


On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Robert Sinland wrote:

> 	I was messing with Oasis olc and trying to figure out how to load
> a MOB into a room with zedit.  Turns out when I looked at the code in
> zedit.c there was a line or two with an sprint (etc) then some ansi
> codes  esc[H esc[J  then the menu list. These ansi calls were somehow
> killing the first one or two choices of any menu that they were used in,
> so I took them out and recompiled, problem solved.  My question is what
> do they do and why were they there?  I dug in a book or two before
> posting this, but found no ref to  either of those codes as they were
> used.

\x1b[H is go to 0,0 (home), \x1b[J is clear from cursor position to the
bottom of the screen (so if the cursor was at 23,23 it'd clear 23,24
through 24,24). Your Win95/DOS/whatever thing might want \x1b[2J (means
clear the whole screen no matter where you are). Be warned that some
programs have problems interpreting ANSI codes and don't like clear
screen codes. I believe it was posted here that a program called..uhm..
I belive zMud or something similar to that erases the top line (or so)
when it clears the screen. Dunno if there's been a fix for it, yet,
after all, I don't use (read: despise) Win95.


--
Daniel Koepke
dkoepke@california.com
Forgive me father, for I am sin.


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