Thread: Printing text side by side

<conio.h> contains the gotoxy() function that will allow you to place your output where you'd like it on the screen.

Problem: <conio.h> is non-standard and would require some trial-and-error to accomplish what you want.

-Skipper

I've never used the gotoxy function before and can't practice with it until this weekend due to school and work But my guess is that it wouldn't work very well with outputting an object that takes up several lines and that only uses one overloaded "cout<<"... or is that assumption wrong?

Something like this might work:

Code:

void ToSideBySide(Team * team, int num_teams, int max) {
for(k = 0; k < num_teams; k += max) {
 
  if( (k + max) > num_teams)
   max = num_teams - k;
  
  for(i = k; i < (k+max), i++){
   cout << team[i]->name;
   }
  for(i = k; i < (k+max), i++){
   cout << team[i]->scores;
   }   
  
  getch(); 
 }
}




#define COUNT 11

int main() {

Team NFL[COUNT];

//...fill in data...

ToSideBySide(NFL, COUNT, 3);

return 0;
}

gotoxy() takes two arguments, an 'x' value and a 'y' value (screen coordinates). This positions the cursor on the screen at a specific location and displays your information there.

Once you've determined where you want to display your division info (the trial-and-error part), it would only require a simple loop to increment the 'y' coordinate, leaving the 'x' value "as is".

Now, without seeing your code, I don't know how much re-working you'd be getting yourself into here. I would assume that you want all of your divisions displayed on one screen, which may, in fact, make this an easier proposition than it seems.

Wish I knew of a better alternative for you, but this is where my thinking takes me.

-Skipper