need help on writting a general outline

ok all i need is the general outline of the way which you think would be beast to get text to scroll...

eg: "C++ is cool "
"++ is cool C"
"+ is cool C+"

this is what i ahve up to date... i really need someone to help me work out the way to do it on paper :| also i cant use gotoxy() since it isnt standrard anymore :|

Code:

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#include <iostream.h>
#include <string.h>

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
void ScrollText(char text[])
{
        int stringlength=0;
        int count=0;

        stringlength=strlen(text);
       
        while(count!=stringlength) //display inital sentence no scroll yet!
        {
                cout<<text[count];
                count++;
        }
       
        while(secondcount!=stringlength)
        {
               
                cout<<text[count]
               
}
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
void GetArray()
/*        get a charecter array
        Pre: none
        Post: return a charecter array to main for use by scrolltext() */
{
        char text[10000];

        cout<<"Enter the string to scroll now:";
        cin.getline (text, 10000);
        ScrollText(text);
}
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
int main()
{
        GetArray();
        return (0);
}

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Code:

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#include <iostream.h>
#include <string.h>

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
void ScrollText(char text[])
{
               
        while(secondcount!=stringlength)

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Here's a problem. You never declare secondcount. Haven't checked the logic in the program, but this'll stop you first.

PHP Code:

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#include <conio.h>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

#define MAX_SCROLLTEXT 100

//
// general way to do it:
//
// get the text ("Test")
// copy it two times ("TestTest")
// REPEAT
//    print the textlength ( Test = 4 ) characters of the two texts
//    add one to start
//    if start > textlength, set start back to zero
// UNTIL keypress
// 

// note: gotoxy, _kbhit and a delay function are operating system specific.

int main()
{
    char szScrollText[ MAX_SCROLLTEXT + 1 ];
    char szScrolling[ MAX_SCROLLTEXT * 2 + 1 ];
    int  nTextLength;
    int  i = 0;

    cout << "Enter Text to scroll:";
    cin.getline( szScrollText, MAX_SCROLLTEXT );
    
    strcpy( szScrolling, szScrollText ); 
    strcat( szScrolling, szScrollText );

    nTextLength = strlen( szScrollText );

    memset( szScrollText, 0, MAX_SCROLLTEXT + 1 );

    while( ! _kbhit() )
    {
        strncpy( szScrollText, szScrolling + i, nTextLength );
    
        cout << szScrollText << endl;
        
        i++;
        
        if( i >= nTextLength ) i = 0;

        // place gotoxy here
        // place delay here
    }
    
    return 0;
} 


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