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Scroll

$

cons


->Scroll(


left

, 

top

, 

right

, 

bottom

, 

col

, 

row

, 

char

, 

attr

, [

cleft

, 

ctop

, 

cright

, 

cbottom

])

Moves a block of data in a console buffer; the block is identified by the left , top , right , and bottom positions.

row and col identify the new location of the block. The cells left empty as a result of the move are filled with the character char and attribute attr .

Optionally, you can specify a clipping region with cleft , ctop , cright , cbottom , so that the contents of the console outside this rectangle are unchanged. Returns undef on error or a nonzero value on success.

# scrolls the screen 10 lines down, filling with black spaces
$CONSOLE->Scroll(0, 0, 80, 25, 0, 10, " ", $FG_BLACK | $BG_BLACK);


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