Thread: Positioning the cursor where I want it?

I want to be move the cursor to any place I want ont he screen and then output text at that position.

For example, I want an "*" 5 lines down and five spaces to the right on a standard DOS screen, does anyone here know how I can do it?

I remember I could do it in Pascal with the gotoxy() command.

Thanks in advance.

Borland compilers have a gotoxy() function in conio.h and you can simulate this effect in a Windows environment with

Code:

#include <windows.h>
void gotoxy(int x, int y)
{
   COORD coord;
   coord.X = x;
   coord.Y = y;
   SetConsoleCursorPosition(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), coord);
}

-Prelude

Thanks, I'll have a look at the gotoxy() in conio.h and then if that doesn't work I'll try the windows.h thing.

I'm using a compiler I got from my Univertsity since we are learning C++ there, it's called Bloodshed Dev-C++

THANK YOU!

I tried including conio.h but that didn't get me a gotoxy() function.
So I tried the code you wrote and it worked fine!

Ummm, since it's using windows.h, if I tried to compile this in a Unix system, what would happen?

Obviously there would be errors hehehe.

But I think there's somekinda conio.h in Unix or something like that (I have no Unix, only Bill Gates' pet software).

>if I tried to compile this in a Unix system, what would happen?
Well, it kind of wouldn't work. To do this in a Unix system you can use curses:

Code:

#include <curses.h>

int main ( void )
{
  initscr();
  move ( 5, 5 );
  addch ( '@' );
  refresh();
  endwin();
  return 0;
}

-Prelude

Okay, I see now, cool.

Thanks for your help!