bradszy

I was just waondering, if it was possible to do 2 things at once in a console app. Like loop the changing of console colours while still being able to do things within the application. Thanks for your time.

vart

you can use threads or timers

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bradszy

Would you care to give me more of an insight on threads please?

vart

Windows or linux?

It is platform specific - so better ask the question about threads on the platform designated forum

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bradszy

Ok thanks.

cyberfish

I believe there's a simple thread implementation in Boost, too, or Qt, both of which would make your code a lot more portable (than using win32-threads or pthreads)

Raigne

There is also SDL_thread which works very well i think.

dwks

Yes, but you have to use the SDL to get at it, which is probably too annoying unless you're actually using the SDL in the first place.

I suggest you try pthreads, unless you want to use another library like one of those mentioned. It's reasonably portable. Search for some tutorials with Google if you're interested.

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