Thread: Visual C++ terminal functions

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    Question Visual C++ terminal functions

    Looking for functions for Visual C++ that are an equivalent to Borland's gettext() & puttext() ---> used to manipulate terminal screen.

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    Look up cout and cin. Here is a simple program.

    Code:
    #include <iostream>
    using namespace std;
    
    int main( void )
    {
      int num;
    
      cout << "Enter a number: ";
      cin >> num;
    
      cout << "You enetered " << num << endl;
    
      return 0;
    }
    Let me know if you have any questions.

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    from what I'm understanding you are looking for printf and scanf

    ex

    printf("Hello World");
    or
    x = "Hello World";
    printf("%s" ,x);

    and

    int i;
    scanf("%d" ,&i);

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    Originally posted by shuesty
    from what I'm understanding you are looking for printf and scanf

    ex

    printf("Hello World");
    or
    x = "Hello World";
    printf("%s" ,x);

    and

    int i;
    scanf("%d" ,&i);
    Yes, but he posted this on the C++ board.
    "...the results are undefined, and we all know what "undefined" means: it means it works during development, it works during testing, and it blows up in your most important customers' faces." --Scott Meyers

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    yes, but cout (console output) and cin (console input) are more standard C++

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    What can I say I'm a die hard c fan ... that and it's all that's been pounded into my head at university so far. Also I'm working with VC++ .Net and I've gotten it to work. But I can appreciate the importance of cin and cout.

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    Originally posted by shuesty
    What can I say I'm a die hard c fan ... that and it's all that's been pounded into my head at university so far. Also I'm working with VC++ .Net and I've gotten it to work. But I can appreciate the importance of cin and cout.
    Well anything that works in C also works in C++

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    Unhappy

    Appreciate the responces...but. Here's the scenario

    I need to capture a certain portion of a terminal window, save it, and then restore it. Saving? into a dynamically allocated array, how? simple, i just the functions!!!!!
    Code:
    //here's some clarification
    }
    char *buffer;
    
    #if PLATFORM == AIX //unix
    	buffer = (char *)malloc(height * width);
    
    	for (i = 0; i < height; i++)
    	    for (j = 0; j < width; j++)
    		buffer[idx++] = mvinch(row + i, col + j);
    #elif PLATFORM == BC //borland
    
    	buffer = (char *)malloc(height * width * 2);
    	gettext(col + 1, row + 1, col + width, row + height, buffer);
    
    #elif PLATFORM == VC //visual c++
    		/*THIS IS WHAT I NEED*/
    #endif
    }
    &#91;code]&#91;/code]tagged by Salem

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    >I need to capture a certain portion of a terminal window, save it, and then restore it.
    When you write to the screen, save all of the data to a buffer and write the buffer to the screen. Then you have the buffer which can be used later.

    -Prelude
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