cursor movement and appearance

[beginner]

Trying to write a game in C. Have to make the cursor move wherever I want on the dos prompt after I run the program. I want to use the regular arrow keys to control the move but don't know how!!!(
I also wanted to make the cursor look like spinning by changing its appearance from _ \|/_ \... contineoulsy.
Have no heck of a clue....

Any help would be highly appreciated!

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[Hammer]

Both your questions have been discussed a few times on here, try searching for a previous thread.

[datainjector]

try the search for the board u will end up with a good result... There is not ansi function that check cursor movement for u ..that i know of ..and the spinning of the cursor is really easy

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>

static void pause ( int ticks )
{
  clock_t end, current = clock();
  end = current + ticks;
  while ( current < end )
    current = clock();

  system("cls");
}

int main ( void )
{
  int i;
  char *ch[3] = {"\\", "|", "/"};

  while (1)
        for (i = 0; i <= 2; i++ ){
            printf("%s", ch[i] );
            pause(500);
        }


  return 0;
}

[beginner]

Thankx a bunch for the prompt reply....

Hope that will help me...
I'll try it...

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