On 10 Jan 2011, at 14:32, Lee Privett wrote:

> In QDOS/SMSQ/E the 'AT' keyword allows the print statement an imaginary y/x 
> character cursor location to be used. Is there away of knowing where this is 
> as a function? 
> 
> for example:
> 
> 10 AT 10,20 PRINT "FRED";
> 20 PRINT LOCX : remark this would return 24
> 30 PRINT LOCY: remark this would return 20
> 
> 
> 10 AT 10,20 PRINT "FRED"
> 20 PRINT LOCX : remark this would return 1 (or 0)
> 30 PRINT LOCY: remark this would return 11
> 

I don't know of any extensions which contain functions like LOCX and LOCY. The 
trap #3 call SD_CHENQ returns the cursor position in characters. It would 
therefore be easy to produce the keywords LOCX and LOCY.

George
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