gotoxy console help?

i am currently using c++ to program in a console application, and hoped that someone could help me on a certain matter.

i am trying to draw boxes in positions on screen in the console window, but am not sure how to go about it. if someone could give me a pointer as to how to draw these boxes using the gotoxy command, i would be most grateful.

Boxes, I'd assume it would be drawn by characters that are blocks. Find the ASCII value of a block character in dos and print a bunch of them. That should give you a box. However, I do not know the function to print text at a specific location.

The ASCII character value for a simple box are:
top left: 201
top right: 187
horizontal bars: 205
vertical bars: 186
bottom right: 188
bottom left: 200

Here's one way to use them (simple program):

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <conio>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
  char TopLeftCorner=201, HorizontalPipes=205, TopRightCorner=187, VerticalPipes=186, BottomRightCorner=188, BottomLeftCorner=200;
 
  gotoxy(2,2);
  cout<<TopLeftCorner<<HorizontalPipes<<HorizontalPipes<<HorizontalPipes<<HorizontalPipes<<TopRightCorner;
  gotoxy(2,3);
  cout<<VerticalPipes<<"    "<<VerticalPipes;
  gotoxy(2,4);
  cout<<VerticalPipes<<"    "<<VerticalPipes;
  gotoxy(2,5);
  cout<<BottomLeftCorner<<HorizontalPipes<<HorizontalPipes<<HorizontalPipes<<HorizontalPipes<<BottomRightCorner;
 
  return 0;
}

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Keep in mind that this makes for a lot of extra trouble, plus it's really ugly.

or here is another ugly one :)

Code:

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void create_box(int start_x,int start_y,int len_x,int len_y)
{
  int x,y;

  for (y=start_y;y<start_y+len_y+1;y++)
    for (x=start_x;x<start_x+len_x+1;x++)
      if ((y==start_y)||(y==start_y+len_y))
      {
        gotoxy(x,y);
        cout << char(205);
      }
      else
      {
        gotoxy(start_x,y);
        cout << char(186);
        gotoxy(start_x+len_x,y);
        cout << char(186);
      }
  gotoxy(start_x,start_y);
  cout << char(201);
  gotoxy(start_x+len_x,start_y);
  cout << char(187);
  gotoxy(start_x,start_y+len_y);
  cout << char(200);
  gotoxy(start_x+len_x,start_y+len_y);
  cout << char(188);
}//end create_box()

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