Printing ANSI type text characters anywhere on the screen.

blackadder has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Guys,

Is there away that I can print ANSI type (DOS like text) characters anywhere on the screen?

Not within the CMD window, but outside it….kinda anywhere on the screen.

What I am trying to do is to script an application installation progress indicator. Similar to this Freesbie Linux distribution screen shot here if you look at the top right corner.

I tried use Win32::Console::ANSI;use Term::ANSIScreen qw/:color :cursor :screen/; but this only print inside the cmd window.

Thanks for the enlightenment.

Blackadder

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Re: Printing ANSI type text characters anywhere on the screen. by brian_d_foy (Abbot) on Dec 24, 2004 at 23:00 UTC
It looks like you want a transparent, borderless window. How you do that on Windows is up to you, but there is plenty of discussion about it for other graphics toolkits. -- brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>	[reply]
Re^2: Printing ANSI type text characters anywhere on the screen. by blackadder (Hermit) on Dec 25, 2004 at 12:32 UTC
Thanks Brian, "...a transparent, borderless window", this phrase is what I was looking for. I'll try it in Tk. Regards Blackadder	[reply]