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Willie wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> Win32 API SetCursorPos can set location of the cursor in Windows O.S.
> My question is.....Is there a Java API can do this?
> 
> Willie.
> 
> 

Try java.awt.Robot.

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Hi Lori Olson:

Thanks for your reply.
I can use System.out.println("String1"); to output a "String1" on the
screen.
How can I output the string at specific location in a DOS BOX(console
Application)?
Is there a Java API can do this?

Willie.

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I believe you can't unless (I guess) you use JNI calls. The reason is IMHO
that Java is a multiplatform environment. And it can't provide platform
specific features. Other platforms (Unix, Mac, ...) than MS DOS may lack
console cursor positioning. For example, on Unix there is an optional
library for console applications -- Curses (Ncurses).
Moreover Java is not very friendly for writing rich console applications (it
lacks convenient input routines that parse users input into primitive types
values, like Pascal's read() does).

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Willie wrote:

> Hi Lori Olson:
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> I can use System.out.println("String1"); to output a "String1" on the
> screen.
> How can I output the string at specific location in a DOS BOX(console
> Application)?
> Is there a Java API can do this?
> 
> Willie.

"Willie" <Willie.nospam@nospam.pchome.com.tw> writes:

> How can I output the string at specific location in a DOS BOX(console
> Application)?
> Is there a Java API can do this?

No. But you could (possibly) send the escape codes used to do the
actual positioning. The codes can be found at
http://www.termsys.demon.co.uk/vtansi.htm and ESC is ASCII 27

char ESC = (char) 27;
System.out.print(ESC+"[{"+row+"};{"+column+"}H"+text);
System.out.flush();

In my test, this didn't work on my Win2k's cmd shell, but it could be
that the support for ANSI/vt100 is less than perfect.

Willie wrote:
 > Hi Lori Olson:
 >
 > Thanks for your reply. I can use System.out.println("String1"); to
 > output a "String1" on the screen. How can I output the string at
 > specific location in a DOS BOX(console Application)? Is there a Java
 > API can do this?
 >
 > Willie.

Ah, on the console.  That's really different.  There's nothing in Java,
per se, to help you do that.  You might want to go Google something like
"java console curses library" and see what you find.  There might be a
library out there you could use.

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Hi Lori Olson, Tor Iver, Sultan:

Thanks for your informations.

Willie.