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    Text positioning and Text scrolling

    I have read adrainx's amazing site about how consoles work and how to manipulate them. What I am wanting to do is sort of complicated to explain.
    Code:
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    |                                 | 
    |                                 |
    |                                 | 
    |                                 | 
    |  Text scrolls here              |                  
    |                                 |
    |                                 |
    |                                 |
    | ________________________________| 
    |                                 |
    | Menu that doesn't scroll and is |
    | always displayed                |
    |                                  |
    |__________________________________|
    Now where it says "Text scrolls here"...this is where I want everything that happens to be output to. If it pages of words or whatever I do not want it to go past the line and run into the box that says "Menu......" . I want the box that displays the menu to never go away and always be viewed.

    Does anyone know how or where I can get the code or ideas of how to get the code? Also, on adrianx's site, I was wondering where he got all that information from. In a few of his tutorials he mentions MSDN. I went there and couldn't decifer what any of it meant.

    Edit: I already know how to put text where I want it, I just don't know how to confine it to a certain spot on the grid. I also am thinking about how I would let the user scroll the text.?!?!?
    Last edited by RealityFusion; 08-12-2004 at 11:50 PM.
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