Thread: Displaying ascii boxes

hey ,so i have a function which draws a box on the screen every time i call it.
the box looks somthing like this...

Code:

printf("_____________\n");
printf("|                      |\n");
printf("|                      |\n");
printf("|                      |\n");
printf("|                      |\n");
printf("|                      |\n");
printf("|                      |\n");
printf("|                      |\n");
printf("|                      |\n");
printf("|                      |\n");
printf("|___________|\n");
printf("\n");

now the thing is..i want to display the boxes in a single row..but every time i call the function it draws the boxes vertically because of the \n's.

How do i display the boxes in a single row ?

Da way I do it iz to jus make da boxes in a string den print da string.

what about the newlines ?

U put da newlines when u actually print. But in memory keep da lines as just lines. Like psudo boxes, get it?

kind of!..so u mean..if i put them in strings..then i could do something like

print stringa1 stringb1 stringc1\n
print stringa2 stringb2 stringc2\n ?

??

maybe like:

Code:

#define WIDTH 45
#define HEIGHT 12

char screen[WIDTH * HEIGHT];

void set_screen(char n, int x, int y)
{
  screen[x + y * WIDTH] = n;
}

void print_screen(void)
{
  char *line = screen, end = screen + (WIDTH * HEIGHT);

  while(line < end)
  {
    printf("&#37;.*s\n", WIDTH, line);
    line += WIDTH;
  }
}

Duz dat help ne?

You would do stuff like set_screen('_', x, y) in for loops to make the tops of da boxes. Jus like a gotoxy() in DOS, but dis way you can make da whole screen at once, den print da buffer to da screen all at once. Make more cents?

yea!..i what you mean!..but im trying to make playing cards...! i think i can figure it out!..thanks!

Ok cool. If u not get it gud, den jus say something. I can xpand on da code 4 u.