Is clearscreen possible in Java? (Borland Jbuilder)

[frenzy]

^^^ title says it all...Im using borland software and i seem to have run into some problems...

[wtd]

Text-based user interface, or graphical?

[frenzy]

tex based

[rizzix]

sorry not possible

[StarGateSG-1]

You can do clear scn you just need to get in to holt software's version and write a clear scn method. Holt soft did so can you.

[Andy]

y not just skip a couple of lines to clear the screen?

[rizzix]

ya but u'd need to calcualate the number of visible rows in the terminal.. that cannot be done by java... yet.

[Andy]

o? im sure if u clear 50 lines it'll be enuff

[rizzix]

really?.. my linux terminal occupies the entire screen.

[wtd]

rizzix wrote:

really?.. my linux terminal occupies the entire screen.

Indeed. Even on Windows, you can edit the properties of CMD so that the Window is any height or width you want.

[Dan]

StarGateSG-1 wrote:

You can do clear scn you just need to get in to holt software's version and write a clear scn method. Holt soft did so can you.

If Holt soft did it, then it whould mean there is somting horbly wrong with the idea behind it and no other person or gourp on the face of the erath should ever try it for the total lack of good progaming practes it uses.

P.S. ya i am mad at holth right now

[wtd]

Indeed. You should either write a proper text-based user-interface, or a proper GUI interface.

The first interface lesson every programmer should learn: don't try to control something you can't, and respect tradition.

Tradition, for text-based user interfaces, is that you just output the text. Heck, I might want to go "back" and look at something that was output a few steps back. If you're trying to "clear the screen" by outputting a hellacious number of blank lines, I'm gonna have to scroll back aways, and depending on settings, I may not even have that info in my buffer anymore.