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Get current cursor position on terminal screen?

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Topic: Get current cursor position on terminal screen?

Posted By: accuterminal
Subject: Get current cursor position on terminal screen?
Date Posted: June 03 2015 at 7:37am

I'd like to grab data off the line where the user has the cursor

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Posted By: PSchellenbach
Date Posted: June 04 2015 at 9:58am

Hello -

Depending on the terminal emulation you are running you may be able to use an escape sequence to send the cursor line to the host. For example, Wyse 50/60 has an escape sequence to send the contents of the row where the cursor is positioned, from column 1 through the cursor location, back to the host with a CR at the end. This sequence is documented in the AccuTerm 7 Help, AccuTerm 7 Reference chapter, Wyse Programming topic, "Printer Control and Terminal Reports" section.

Otherwise you could use a script to read the screen text and send it back to the host. For example:

EQU ESC TO CHAR(27), STX TO CHAR(2), CR TO CHAR(13), EM TO CHAR(25)
PRINT @(5,5):
SLEEP 1
SCRIPT = 'InitSession.Output InitSession.GetText(0) & Chr(13)'
PRINT ESC:STX:'P':SCRIPT:CR:
ECHO OFF; PROMPT ''
INPUT STUFF
ECHO ON; PROMPT '?'

In the GetText() method, the "0" is the starting column. The other arguments are missing, using the defaults of "current row", "last column" and "all text".

Thanks,

Pete