On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Jason wrote:
> howdy
>
> I have an svgalib app and I'd like, based on user input, to switch back
> to text mode do some printf's and fgets's with input from the user.
spectemu does that, so you might want to see how it's done there.
> so I'm doing, basically:
>
> /* working in a vga mode to this point */
> char tmp[256];
> keyboard_close();
> vga_setmode(TEXT);
>
> printf("foo: ");
> scanf("%s", tmp);
>
> vga_setmode(MYVGAMODE);
> keyboard_init();
> /* back to vga mode */
> but I don't see the printf stuff until I quit the app alltogether, and
> the scanf does into the ether.
If you put \n in the printf string, do you see the output? The stdout
string is line-buffered.
> If this soundsstupid, it's a simplification.What I really need is for
> my svgalib app to run another svgalib app, wait for it to exit, and then
> resume operations.the second app may need user input. Trying this has the
> same result as the above.
>
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