How to write timed text?

**Raigne** · 11-26-2005

I am trying to get my program to write text a letter at a time instead of a entire line at a time how is it that I go about doing that?
I know this is prolly really obvious but I cant find it in the furoms so I figured I would ask.

**Salem** · 11-26-2005

A for loop to print each character - say cout << string[i];
A delay to wait a while between printing characters - say Sleep(1000);
Flush output to make sure you see something - say cout.flush();

**rodrigorules** · 11-26-2005

here, i copied the "void sleep" method from some site, and i wrote the code

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <time.h>
using namespace std;
void sleep(unsigned int mseconds)
{
    clock_t goal = mseconds + clock();
    while (goal > clock());
}
int main(){
char word[] = "Supercalifragilistoiusomg";
cout << word << endl;
cout << "now letter byletter people \n" ;
int x;
for (x=0;x<26;x++){
cout << word[x] << " ";
sleep(100);
}
cout << endl;
cin.get();
}

**Raigne** · 11-26-2005

is there any way to gt a string length to get it to automaticlly know how many characters are in the string. Because if you make x larger than the string then alot of random characters pop up. So i was wondering if you could make something like

Code:

x =strl word[];

I know that isnt the actually syntax but that is like what I want.

And thank you very much for helping me with the text display thing.

**Enahs** · 11-26-2005

Code:

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

int main()
{

string example = "alksdfhlksdhflkhsflkhsdlfkhsaelkhflksahef";
int length = example.length();
cout << length;


cout << "Or end a for-loop" << endl;


for( int i = 1; i <= example.length(); i++)

cout << i << " " ;


return 0;
}

**Raigne** · 11-26-2005

Thanks so much Enahs that helps A WHOLE LOT. As far as I knwo this is going to be my last question it have nothing to do with this but better than making a new thread for something this dumb. What is the difference between

Code:

#include "program.h"

and

Code:

#include <program.h>

Because I am making my own headers for my program and I keep having to add them to the include file of my dev-cpp directory before it will let me use them. I need to be able to use them from the program directory not dev-cpp. (Mainly because I want to be able to share my code with other windows users). so they can learn from it.

**ElastoManiac** · 11-26-2005

If you wanna use your own headear file use " " - it should be in your directory
otherwise use <> - this means the header is either in system32 or in compiler directory

And also when you are determinating the length of a string, that is char[xxx] do it like this:

Code:

char string[];
int length = strlen(string);

**Raigne** · 11-26-2005

Code:

1 C:\Dev-Cpp\Game\Game.cpp In file included from Game.cpp 
5 C:\Dev-Cpp\Game\game.h colors: No such file or directory. 
 C:\Dev-Cpp\Game\G__~1.EXE Game.o: No such file or directory. 
 C:\Dev-Cpp\Game\G__~1.EXE no input files

what do those mean? I made my header files and now my program wont run.

**ElastoManiac** · 11-26-2005

i think that you have included "game.h"
but haven't created such file, or maybe you did but haven't placed it in right directory.
Give us the source!!!

**Raigne** · 11-26-2005

well I cant send you my source. my comp is really really messed up and is barely lettng me get on the net. but anyways I have a FOLDER named game, then I have all my files in it including the source, headers, and whatever else I may need, but it keeps telling me the files dont exist? it is wierd I know they are there but the program says they dont exist. I even tried adding the directory to my include files under project properties and it didnt work.

**sean** · 11-26-2005

If you have those header files in a separate folder, are you remembering to include that part of the path in your includes?

Code:

#incude "game\game.h"

**Raigne** · 11-26-2005

Yep that was the problem thanks sean

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