gotoxy alternative?

[krappykoder]

I just spent about an hour looking for the name of the function to move the cursor only to find out my compiler (mingw) doesn't acctualy *have* it :/
Anyone know an alternative?

[cwr]

Moving the cursor isn't part of standard C. Indeed, C does not have any concept of a cursor. There are various libraries that do this, the only one I can think of is ncurses.

[prog-bman]

*Cough*

[TactX]

On Windows you would propably use SetConsoleCursorPosition(). MSDN is your friend.

[krappykoder]

That'd be great if this were acctualy a windows console, and not a command line app

[adrianxw]

My 6 part console tutorial cover this and many other things related to console programming.

It is written in C++, but if you change the cout's to printf's most of it should work. The functions you will call will be the same of course.

[sunnypalsingh]

My 6 part console tutorial cover this and many other things related to console programming.

Nicely laid tutorials

[TactX]

That'd be great if this were acctualy a windows console, and not a command line app

I don't get it. You're using MinGW, so you're using Windows. What exactly is wrong with SetConsoleCursorPosition()? What is the difference between a "windows console" and a "command line app" under Windows?