On 2016-04-28 14:23, Bo Berglund wrote: > What I do not want is a program that scrolls up on the screen as keys > are entered etc. I want the screen to stay put and only the status > fields change when I do the commands.
Free Vision can do just that for you. Obviously you can search the Internet for DOS type menu interfaces [loads of such examples are still around], but that would require low level console codes and interpretation. Free Vision does it already for you - and the end-result should look much prettier. I suggest you grab a copy of a Turbo Pascal manual (they are freely available on the Internet now - Borland released them) or search for some Turbo Vision example programs/code. Or even look at the FPC Text IDE as a working example (but that's a rather complex example to study). I did a quick search, here is a simple Turbo Vision tutorial. It will apply exactly as is to Free Vision as well. http://www.baskent.edu.tr/~tkaracay/etudio/ders/prg/pascal/PasHTM3/pas/pasl3007.html Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus