[OwlBoy]

ok, our silly C++ book has instructions for a conio.h library. some of the stuff is cool...

I would like basicly to be able to use


<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier> gotoxy(<font color = blue>3</font>,<font color = blue>12</font>);
</font>[/code]

or something that does the same. That code moves the cursor, or insertion point that that line/char for the next line of output.

This would help me with formatting output, and yes I know output should not be my focus at this point in the game but hey, any hints?

-Owl

[humanbean]

well.

gotoxy() isn't an ANSI standard c function.. your book may be for something like DOS and borland.

look into a terminal library like ncurses.

[OwlBoy]

Ok, I'll try that thanks. (and welcome to the forums) Anyone else have any hints?

-Owl

[humanbean]

A little more help...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier>#include &lt;curses.h&gt;
int main() {
initscr();
move(<font color = blue>3</font>,<font color = blue>4</font>); <font color = brown>// like gotoxy(<font color = blue>3</font>,<font color = blue>4</font>)</font>
addstr(<font color = red>"Hello"</font>);
refresh();
endwin();

return <font color = blue>0</font>;
}
</font>[/code]

I haven't tested this under os x (works in linux)