[Advanced-java] Curses on MS Windows

[mega_gojira@xxxxxxxxxxx (Tim O'Neil)]

--- Wirianto Widjaya <wiri@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>Hi All,
 
>I am developing java applications that are accessed through wireless barcode reader devices console thorugh telnet mechanism. Of course the display is only support Character Mode. The OS that is used is MS Windows 2000.
 
>The problems is that i need to implement curses programming for control the screen (such as for clearing screen, move cursor position, etc). Actually it still working without screen control, but uncleared screen made the screen scroll slowly.
 
>I had search a java resource regarding the topic, and only found implementation for Linux environment. 
 
>Please kindly help me on this matter.

What you want doesn't exist as far as I know (console cursor control is too platfor, dependant I expect) but you could use these with some kind of RMI dll I suppose:

http://www.crystalcom.com/crs_swin.htm
http://www.mkssoftware.com
http://dickey.his.com/ncurses/
http://www.funet.fi/pub/win-nt/curses


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