REXX Tips & Tricks, Version 2.80

0.9b (c) 1995 Peter Childs

Get the current cursor position

 
/* sample routine to get the current cursor position with plain REXX  */
/* and ANSI commands                                                  */
/* Original code is from the ANSICD package from Jamie Hoglund        */

  parse value GetCursorPos() with col row
  say "At program start the cursor was at " || ,
      "Column " || col || ", Row " || row || "."
exit 0

/* ------------------------------------------------------------------ */
/* function: Get the current cursor position                          */
/*                                                                    */
/* call:     GetCursorPos                                             */
/*                                                                    */
/* returns:  col row                                                  */
/*                                                                    */
/* note:     This function works only for display sizes up to 200 for */
/*           columns or rows. The upper left corner is 1,1.           */
/*           The REXXUTIL function SysCurPos uses zero based values   */
/*           (the upper left corner is 0,0).                          */
/*                                                                    */
GetCursorPos: PROCEDURE
  usedChars = ":;<=>?@ABCD"

  Rc = Charout(,D2C(27) || "[6n")
  Pull Q

                                                             /* v2.30 */
  parse var q 3 y1 +1 y2 +1 3 row +2 6 x1 +1 x2 +1 6 col +2 .

  if pos( y1, usedChars ) <> 0 then
    row = 10 || y2

  if pos( x1, usedChars ) <> 0 then
    col = 10 || x2

return col row

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