Thread: Rectangle is destroyed after the other is drawn

Hello. I am trying to create a "Tetris" game.
I am drawing a rectangle which is moving on the console. The rectangle is refreshed with "InvalidateRect" At the present moment I am testing it only with key RIGHT. So when I am pressing the key RIGHT it is moving to the right
When the rectangle is reaching a certain point, then we have another rectangle falling. As soon as I start using the "LEFT" key it is refreshing the second rectangle, BUT it is erasing the previous rectangle. How can I deal with it- I mean, how can I refresh the second rectangle, but at the same time leave first rerectangle on the field without erasing?

Great thanx in advance!





Here I am showing a piece of code which is related to the game function

Code:

void Game()



{
    int i;
    int xcoord;
    int xcoord2 = 0;
    
    clrscr();
    system("color 0a");

    for (; ;) {

        const int width = 100;
        xcoord = 50;
        HWND hwnd = GetConsoleWindow();
        HDC hdc = GetDC(hwnd);
        RECT rect;
        GetClientRect(hwnd, &rect);
   
            for ( i = 10; i<80; i++)
        {
            Rectangle(hdc, xcoord, i, xcoord + 40, i + width);

            int cd;
         
            if (_kbhit()) {
                char keyp;
                keyp = _getch();

                switch (keyp)
                {
                case UP: printf("ok");
                    break;
                case RIGHT:
               
                    xcoord = xcoord + 20;
                 
                     InvalidateRect(hwnd, NULL, FALSE);
                        
                    break;
                }

           _getch());
              
            }

    
        }
    
            }

      
    }
    

}

Keep a list of all rectangles currently on the screen and redraw all of them each time.
Or don't call InvalidateRect at all and do your own erasing of the old position of a rectangle.

algorism , great thanx for your advise!