Thread: printing to a dos window, with specified co-ordinates?

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    printing to a dos window, with specified co-ordinates?

    how would i go about printing a single character to a specified co-ordinate??
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    Some compilers have a gotoxy() function in conio.h, if yours doesn't...
    Code:
    void gotoxy(int x, int y)
{
     HANDLE hOut = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
     COORD pos = {x, y};
     SetConsoleCursorPosition(hOut, pos);
}
    0, 0 is the top-left corner of the window
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    thanks for the quick reply man!
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