public void AddOutputLine(string text)
{
// break the input text up into lines of the right size
List <string> lines = Chunker.ChunkString(text, Console.WindowWidth);
foreach (string line in lines)
{
OutputHistory.Enqueue(line);
}
LastLineToDisplay = OutputHistory.Count;
Update();
}
// TODO: finish this new version of Update
// Redraw the display within the console window without overflowing the buffer, so no scrolling happens
public void Update()
{
Console.Clear();
// start the cursor in a place so that there's exactly enough room to print out all of the output from the
int CursorRow = 0;
Console.SetCursorPosition(0, CursorRow);
// write output lines until the cursor is at 4th from the bottom line
foreach (string line in OutputHistory.Slice(LastLineToDisplay - Console.WindowHeight + 4, LastLineToDisplay))
{
SpecialWrite(line);
CursorRow += 1;
Console.SetCursorPosition(0, CursorRow);
}
Console.SetCursorPosition(0, Console.WindowHeight - 4);
// draw the kMUD messages and the command in the bottom 4 lines
Console.Write("\u2508\u2508\u2508kMUD (Kirk's MUD client)");
for (int i = 0; i < Console.WindowWidth - 27; i++)
{
Console.Write('\u2508');
}
CursorRow += 1;
Console.SetCursorPosition(0, Console.WindowHeight - 3);
// write as much of the message as fits
// TODO: make message area expand for larger messages?
Console.Write(kMUDMessage.Substring(0, Math.Min(Console.WindowWidth, kMUDMessage.Length)));
Console.SetCursorPosition(0, Console.WindowHeight - 2);
for (int i = 0; i < Console.WindowWidth; i++)
{
Console.Write('\u2508');
}
if (Echoing)
{
WriteCommand();
}
else
{
// put the cursor there
Console.SetCursorPosition(0, Console.WindowHeight - 1);
}
}
