Re: Pascal, Connect4 Game, 2D Array, display.

On 2008-01-20, Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> israphelr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>
>> I have displayed the board on the screen (this is a console
>> application, I am *very* inexperienced with programming and I don't
>> know any graphics at all )
>
> Why don't you use a GUI? In a console window you can output escape 
> sequences to position the cursor, change colors etc.

(only under Unix, or with ansi driver loaded in config.nt). Normal
textmode
IO goes via a special part of the win32 API.

Delphi radically broke (probably deliberately) with the DOS past in this
respect, and doesn't provide any console IO units, like Crt or Graph.

> but don't ask me what escape sequences exist nowadays. Perhaps
FreePascal
> contains according do***entation?

One could probably ****t the FPC Crt unit probably fairly easily (the
win32/win64 edition).

Maybe even the complete FPC vairant of Turbo Vision (called Free Vision,
at
least if Delphi still sup****ts enough of the TP object model), including
mouse selection of menus and popup boxes. Significantly more work, but not
THAT hard, since e.g. getting rid of dosisms and 16-bitisms is already
done.