Terminal control/Dimensions

Terminal control/Dimensions is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.

Determine the height and width of the terminal, and store this information into variables for subsequent use.

PureBasic

PureBasic does not have native functions for reading the size of this window, but supports API-functions that allows this.

This code is for Windows only. <lang PureBasic>Macro ConsoleHandle()

 GetStdHandle_( #STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE )

EndMacro

Procedure ConsoleWidth()

 Protected CBI.CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO
 Protected hConsole = ConsoleHandle()
 GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo_( hConsole, @CBI )
 ProcedureReturn CBI\srWindow\right - CBI\srWindow\left + 1

EndProcedure

Procedure ConsoleHeight()

 Protected CBI.CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO
 Protected hConsole = ConsoleHandle()
 GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo_( hConsole, @CBI )
 ProcedureReturn CBI\srWindow\bottom - CBI\srWindow\top + 1

EndProcedure

If OpenConsole()

 x$=Str(ConsoleWidth())
 y$=Str(ConsoleHeight())
 PrintN("This window is "+x$+"x"+y$+ " chars.")
 ;
 Print(#CRLF$+"Press ENTER to exit"):Input()

EndIf</lang>

UNIX Shell

Works with: Bourne Shell

Works with: bash

<lang sh>#!/bin/sh WIDTH=`tput cols` HEIGHT=`tput lines` echo "The terminal is $WIDTH characters wide and has $HEIGHT lines"</lang>