Strick.PlusCon

Cursor Utilities

The Cursor static class has methods that allow you to move or position the cursor, and to control its shape, visibility and other appearance attributes.

Move & position

MoveTop

Moves the cursor position to the top row of the console buffer.

MoveBottom

Moves the cursor position to the bottom row of the console buffer.

MoveVertical

Moves the cursor position vertically (up – toward the top, or down – toward the bottom) within the buffer by the number of rows indicated by the “rows” argument.

The “rows parameter is an integer value indicating the number of rows to move the cursor, as follows:

• A positive value moves the cursor down (toward the bottom)
• A negative value moves the cursor up (toward the top)
• The cursor’s position is NOT changed if the value is 0.

Also see MoveUp and MoveDown below for additional information.

MoveUp

Moves the cursor position up (toward the top) within the console buffer by the number of rows indicated by the “rows” argument (or by one for the overload that takes no argument).

If “rows” is > the cursor’s current row, it is moved to the top of the buffer (row 0).

MoveDown

Moves the cursor position down (toward the bottom) within the console buffer by the number of rows indicated by the “rows” argument (or by one for the overload that takes no argument).

If the downward movement would result in the cursor position being below the bottom of the buffer, the console is scrolled up by the appropriate number of rows.

Shape, visibility, appearance

Show

Shows the cursor.

Show(bool)

Shows or Hides the cursor based on the boolean argument.

Hide

Hides the cursor.

Hide(bool)

Hides or Shows the cursor based on the boolean argument.

Blink

Starts blinking the cursor.

Blink(bool)

Starts or stops blinking the cursor based on the boolean argument.

Steady

Stops blinking the cursor.

Steady(bool)

Stops or starts blinking the cursor based on the boolean argument.

Shape

Sets the cursor to the shape specifed by the “shape” argument. The argument is a value from the CursorShape enum.

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