amiga-bootcamp/10_devices/console.md
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console.device — Text Terminal I/O

Overview

console.device provides ANSI-compatible text rendering into Intuition windows. It translates raw keycodes to ASCII and supports a rich set of escape sequences for cursor positioning, colour, and text formatting.


Opening

struct IOStdReq *con = CreateStdIO(port);
con->io_Data   = (APTR)win;  /* the Intuition Window */
con->io_Length = sizeof(struct Window);
OpenDevice("console.device", 0, (struct IORequest *)con, 0);

Common Escape Sequences

Sequence Description
\033[H Home cursor
\033[nA Cursor up n lines
\033[nB Cursor down n lines
\033[nC Cursor right n columns
\033[nD Cursor left n columns
\033[y;xH Move to row y, column x
\033[J Clear to end of screen
\033[K Clear to end of line
\033[nm Set graphics rendition (colour/style)
\033[0m Reset attributes
\033[1m Bold
\033[3m Italic
\033[4m Underline
\033[3037m Foreground colour
\033[4047m Background colour

References

  • NDK39: devices/conunit.h
  • ADCD 2.1: console.device autodocs