Thread: I know this is most likely a novice problem...

I am making a text game, genre RPG, but I need to know how to put a scroll bar on the console window, and remove it at will so I can making a scrollable inventory so I can cout more than 45 lines at a time. I thank you very much for you help, and I am using a class for this

Code:

class itembase { //creates absract data type
    public:
    itembase() {
        //
    }
    

    virtual void load(); // Should be used ONLY 1 time in program, this loads item data from files
    virtual void display(); //this should be used on a blank screen, or inventory, displays ALL item data
    virtual void scroll(); //toggles scroll bar
    
};

I had more in that class but comp crashed and I lost all my work forgot to save
yet again thank you for any help

Making your own console-like window would probobly be easier than what you want to do.

Maybe somthing like multipule screens rather than a scrollbar?

Hmm.. yeah, but any ideas on how I could go about doing that? I used WIN32 for awhile but it is to much of a pain, no strings, no ints, no floats, at least not without atoi, or similar, and the writing to screen is a pain, but if oyu have any ideas i thank you much

Yeah, why not just use multiple screens like Cool-A suggested. Say cout 20 inventory items then wait for user to press a keyboard button then cout the remaining inventory items. Quickest/easiest solution that I can think of.

hmm yea that could work but, can I do something like enter a page number for the itemlist or something like that? like

Code:

cout << " << Previous Page 1 || 2 Next Page >>  Selection: " << endl;
cin >> *t_int;
if ( *t_int == 1 ) {
      p_Itm->nextpage();
}
else {
      p_itm->prevpage();
}

I will do that if it doesnt prove to be exceedingly difficult
Thanks for any help

Hey jmd15 its been awhile, well yea that would work, but WIN32 doesn't handle ints, or strings very easily, at least not without atoi and that gets old. Yea I admit it would be easier, but it is alot more difficult to make a text game in WIN32 than a console.

>> but it is a lot more difficult to make a text game in WIN32 than a console.

True, but you can do a LOT more with WIN32 than with MS-DOS. (Like that scroll bar you
want.) Overall, programming in WIN32 is worth it's cumbersome.

Besides, MS-DOS is ancient, time to move along in life.

If you would like I could create a small framework that will give you an input window and a response window and then leave the rest to you.

It's quite simple in MFC and in Win32. Then you just use the API to write text to the desired window. That's pretty much all you need for a text game.