Subj : Re: Prompt #130: Scanning
To   : G00R00
From : PSI-JACK
Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 07:20 pm

On 09/03/14, g00r00 said the following...
 
 g0>  Ps> all the previous text so that it can wipe it out? And if so.. How do 
 g0>  Ps> get it to stop doing that, so I can use my own custom display methods
 g0>  Ps> I choose?
 g0> 
 g0> Can you explain what you're trying to do?

Well, basically, in prompt 130, I've replaced the text there with my own
stuff, including a |DFpopbigred||...

Essentially, something similar to what Gryphon did with Cyberia, per-se.
During a new message scan, I wanted something centered on the screen, in my
case it's a gradiently-shaded red 3D-ish box with the "Scanning: |MB" inside
that. 

I figured out the only trick I could think of left which was after putting the
text in place to move the cursor down to the [X1[Y23, then when it does seem
to go to the 1st character on the line it doesn't wipe out the ANSI box I put
up.

I'm just wondering why after that prompt displays, why Mystic is going to
character 1 of the line it's on after that prompt, and literally spacing
through a number of characters as-if to wipe out the text that was once there,
as if that's hard coded and not optional.

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