Clear Screen

[cprogrammer]

I need to know how to clear the termianl window screen from within MPLAB. ex. printf("blahblahblah\r\n") instead of \r\n i need something to clear the screen, if there is nothing like this please tell me a method of doing this.

[Mark McLeod]

There is no direct command or special ASCII the IFI Terminal Window will recognize (or at least not the last time I tried the entire ASCII string set), but you can simply send a whole bunch of carriage returns, e.g.,

printf("/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r/r");

[bear24rw]

You could write your own terminal or use another free one that does have a character that will clear the screen

[Kevin Watson]

Originally Posted by cprogrammer

I need to know how to clear the termianl window screen from within MPLAB. ex. printf("blahblahblah\r\n") instead of \r\n i need something to clear the screen, if there is nothing like this please tell me a method of doing this.

Get a good terminal emulator, like TeraTerm, and then Google "terminal escape sequence" for the character strings that can be sent to the terminal emulator to create pretty cool user interfaces.

-Kevin

[brainonska]

system("cls");
or...
system("clear");

[dwc309]

If you choose Adam 3A terminal emulation and then find a terminal program that supports it, you can have a complete way to control where text is put on the screen.

[Jimmy Cao]

Originally Posted by brainonska

system("cls");
or...
system("clear");

I dont think these work on the RC, because these are actually external function calls to the windows terminal, but I may be wrong.