ANSI Code to PRINT

[Don Ewald]

Greetings!

I'm interested in seeing if there is a program to convert ANSI escape codes to PowerBasic's COLOR/PRINT statements. I've take a gander about and I haven't run into anything conclusive yet. I'm trying to convert a file I've create in TheDraw and saved as an ANSI file into code that I can use in PowerBasic. Any ideas?

Kurt Reonis
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[Scott Slater]

Don,

I wrote a BBS Door Library for PB 3.5 which includes the source code
for the library. In the source there is a file called DISPANSI.BAS that
will read ANSI strings and display them on the screen converting the X,Y
coordinates, and the color codes. This library is called PB35MDM2.ZIP
and it is available here in the PowerBASIC for DOS File Downloads or you
can grab it from my web site at http://www.summitcn.com/powerbasic.html


Scott


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[Don Ewald]

Greetings Scott!

This is very close to what I was looking for, with a little editing it should work out well. Thanks for the direction.

Kurt Reonis
[email protected]

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[Jerry Fielden]

And another way is write a little utility:

FileNam$ = "type ANSIfile.ans"
SHELL FileNam$

should display your ANSI file to the screen.
Use PEEK$ to save it into a string. Then you can
save it to a file.

In your program After loading it from a file,
use POKE$ to display it on the screen.

Of course this only converts for use with POKE$.
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[This message has been edited by Jerry Fielden (edited August 16, 2001).]