Thread: i need help with a few things

i am doing project to work on my programming skills first i would like to create a window and have an oject in the window and it would be a certain color and when a user presses an arrow key i want th place where it was at turn back to black i know how to get arrow key input so i just need to know how to get colors and how should i allocate memory for the window?? use an array or malloc()? thank you

ok in about fifteen minutes i have been able to come up with this code does anybody have any suggestions on how i should put in the cases for where to move

Code:

#include "stdafx.h"

int winarray[20][12];
int move(int where);

enum
{
  KEY_ESC     = 27,
  ARROW_UP    = 256 + 72,
  ARROW_DOWN  = 256 + 80,
  ARROW_LEFT  = 256 + 75,
  ARROW_RIGHT = 256 + 77
};

static int get_code ( void )
{
  int ch = getch();

  if ( ch == 0 || ch == 224 )
    ch = 256 + getch();

  return ch;
}


int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
	char ch;
	int count,count2,mover;
	for(count=0;count<20;count++)
		winarray[count][0]=1;
	for(count=0;count<12;count++){
		winarray[1][count]=1;
		winarray[20][count]=1;
	}
mover=2;
winarray[1][1]=mover;
winarray[1][2]=mover;
winarray[2][1]=mover;
winarray[2][2]=mover;

	for(count=0;count<20;count++){
		if(count<12){
			switch(winarray[count][count]){
			case 0:{
				printf(" ");
				   break;
				   }
			case 1:{
				printf(".");
				   break;
				   }
			case 2:{
				printf("[]");
				   }
			}
		}
		if(count<=20){
			switch(winarray[count][12]){
			case 0:{
				printf(" ");
				break;
				   }
			case 1:{
				printf(".");
				   }
			case 2:{
				printf("[]");
			}
		}
		if(count==20){
			printf("\n");
		}
	}
while ( ( ch = get_code() ) != KEY_ESC ) {
    switch ( ch ) {
	case ARROW_UP:{
move(1);
break;
}
	case ARROW_DOWN:{
move(2);
break;
}
	case ARROW_LEFT{
move(3);
break;
	}
	case ARROW_RIGHT{
move(4);
break;
	}
}
					

	return 0;
}


int move(int where){
	switch(where){
	case 1:{}		/*move up*/
	case 2:{}		/*move down*/
	case 3:{}		/*move left*/
	case 4:{}		/*move right*/
	}

return 0;
}

if you find any glitches or bugs in this code please post that to thanks