Hi.
I'm trying to do some app in linux that looks kind of like TVision, so I need the screen contents to save the screen & stuff. Has anyone got an idea how might I do this, but not by using /dev/vcsa devices, because I want my app to be usable over telnet too.

Thanx for reading.

Bogdan.

Le jeu, 08 f�v 2001, vous avez ecrit :

Under Dos, when i want to save the text screen,
i made an array like Array[1..4000] Of Byte (80cols*25lines*2 bytes/char) and I copy the memory adress starting at $B800 into the array.

I don't know if you can use this method under linux and if it works under telnet.

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Hi,
look for "consolebuf" somewhere in source of crt unit. This array contents console content.

Martin H.

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That is not possible. You need to keep track of the video output yourself and store it in an own buffer. You can use the video unit for this. Available in the delivered API, and for the snapshots it's in the RTL itself.

The oCrt unit has some windowing for Linux. It includes nGrabScreen and nPopScreen for saving & restoring. You can find it on the contributed units page.

Ken