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    From Alterego@VERT/ALTERANT to Digital Man on Tue Oct 1 11:06:55 2019
    Hey DM,

    I've noticed that whenver I use console.clear() (to clear the screen and home the cursor), I'm getting a "pause prompt" (Hit a key) before it actually clears the screen and homes the cursor.

    However, if I home the cursor before hand console.gotoxy(0,0) and then call console.clear(), I do not get that pause prompt.

    Is this expected?
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Alterego on Mon Sep 30 20:04:56 2019
    Re: console.clear()
    By: Alterego to Digital Man on Tue Oct 01 2019 11:06 am

    Hey DM,

    I've noticed that whenver I use console.clear() (to clear the screen and home the cursor), I'm getting a "pause prompt" (Hit a key) before it actually clears the screen and homes the cursor.

    If there are potentially unacknowledged/read lines that have been printed on the console, that is normal. Set console.line_counter = 0 if you wish to defeat the auto-pause behavior.

    However, if I home the cursor before hand console.gotoxy(0,0) and then call console.clear(), I do not get that pause prompt.

    Is this expected?

    The line_counter = 0 method would be better. But know that means that some text lines may have not been seen by the user when the screen is being cleared.

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  • From Alterego@VERT/ALTERANT to Digital Man on Tue Oct 1 14:58:27 2019
    Re: console.clear()
    By: Digital Man to Alterego on Mon Sep 30 2019 08:04 pm

    I've noticed that whenver I use console.clear() (to clear the screen and home the cursor), I'm getting a "pause prompt" (Hit a key) before it actually clears the screen and homes the cursor.
    If there are potentially unacknowledged/read lines that have been printed on the console, that is normal. Set console.line_counter = 0 if you wish to defeat the auto-pause behavior.

    I know there are no pending output to go to the screen.

    It also doesnt matter if the screen stops at line 3, 12 or 24. (I'm sending some pure ANSI to the screen from a file that has been f.read(). Some of the ANSI does have @codes, so it is sent to the screen with console.putmsg().
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