Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb:
I assume you have a fixed amount of lines and columns? If so it
should be very simple to write a pos-highlighter (part of your
project, does not need to be registerred in IDE), that has
CharAttributes: Array[1..maxLine] of array [ 1..MaxColumn] of TAttribute
Of course that is not practical if you have thousands of lines, as it
would require a lot of storage....
Since it's emulating a mechanical terminal that printed to roll paper,
the number of lines is indeterminate and increasing. I suppose that I
could limit it to (say) 1000, but if other people started using it
there'd be bound to be somebody complain.
Have you ever seen a roll of paper, of indeterminate length? ;-)
Yes. I've also seen all sort of printer problems which can cause the
number of lines that will fit on a piece- let alone a roll- of paper by
100%.
And a mechanical terminal with multi-color ribbon?
[Well, I've seen a black/red ribbon many years ago...]
Yes. And more to the point, the terminal that I'm emulating
/specifically/ has a black/red ribbon which is used in a definite way-
as shown on the link I posted.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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