Hi, i'm trying to output a character in the very bottom of the console screen, far right hand side. However, the cursor keeps going onto a new line once the character has been placed in the corner. Is there any format specifier that can be included within the cout statement to prevent this from happening?
Thanks.
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maybe if you set the width to 80 and right aligned
EDIT: ie cout.width=80;
Thanks, it still made no difference. The cursor still went onto the next line.
Be a leader and not a follower.
I have no idea how to prevent it from going to a newline at the end of the screen... you could do it with WinAPI calls, but I don't think that's what you want
cout.setw(80)
might help, depending on what you are trying to do
not 100% sure this will work but it should. print a backspace immediately after whatever your printing....
gotoxy(bottom right corner)
cout<<"your thing here\b";
might do the trick.
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harryp, does that work? Once you move the cursor and then print a character, doesn't the cursor scroll off the screen regardless?
I've tried everyones suggestions, but none of them seem to do the trick. The cursor still moves onto the next line by default.
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I gather then there is nothing that can be done to prevent the new line from occuring?
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