gotoxy function

[Trafalgar Law]

Can someone teach me how to use this function and what it can do?

[matsp]

gotoxy(10, 12);   // places the cursor at x=10, y=12. 
printf("Hello, World\n");

Of course, that's just a guess, since gotoxy() is not a standard function. For all that I know, it could be a function that calculates pi, or returns a boolean for the planet (true if it's got oxygen, false if there is no oxygen), or something completely different. Of those choices, I suspect the "move the text cursor to X, Y" is the most common.

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Mats

[Trafalgar Law]

Why does the gotoxy() function doesn't work
it says it's an undeclared identifier

[tabstop]

You have to include the header file for the particular version of gotoxy that you want to use (possibly conio.h).

[matsp]

You have to include the header file for the particular version of gotoxy that you want to use (possibly conio.h).

Or perhaps the compiler + C library doesn't have one (for example Visual Studion doesn't have one). As I said, gotoxy() IS NOT A STANDARD FUNCTION, so a compiler vendor may choose to not supply that function [even standard functions are sometimes not supplied, but then you usually get a bit of information somewhere in the documentation to say that "functionX is not provided because on OS Y, there is no underlaying function to support that function." or some such.

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Mats

[master5001]

I have written a function that does this and posted it on the boards. Just do a search. Though it may be too many years back to still be floating around. I am surely not the only one who has written a gotoxy(). So if no one else here has done it, just hit up Microsoft or google.