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- {
- >I need a routine that will go to a specific screen position and grab one
- >or two Characters that are there (or next to it) - e.g It would go to row
- >1 column 1 and return With the Character in that spot..
-
- Try this For TP 6.0
- }
-
- Uses
- Crt;
-
- Function ScrnChar(x,y:Byte):Char;
- Var
- xkeep, ykeep : Byte;
- begin
- xkeep := whereX;
- ykeep := whereY;
- GotoXY(x, y);
- Asm
- push bx
- mov ah,8
- xor bx,bx
- int 16
- mov @Result,al
- pop bx
- end;
- GotoXY(xkeep,ykeep)
- end;
- {
- I am not sure about the "@Result" as being the correct name, but TP 6.0 has a
- name that is used For the result of a Function. This should be Compatible with
- the Windows etc. of TP 6.0
- }
-
- Var
- ch : Char;
- Count : Integer;
-
- begin
- ClrScr;
- For Count := 1 to 500 do
- begin
- Write(chr(Count));
- if count mod 80 = 0 then
- Write(#13#10);
- end;
- ch := scrnChar(5,5);
- Write(#13#10#10#10#10#10,'The Character at position (5,5) is: ',ch);
- readln;
- end.