Thread: how do i duplicate this in c++

Are you practicing a new language? Do you have an real world examples of what you want? Do you know any programs that do what you're asking?

Depends on if you want it to be portable or not because it's dependent on the operating system.

For windows the conio library will do. With it you will be able to enter and change text at specific positions. If you want it to be portable, use PDCurses instead.

For the timer part of your code you can simulate a sleep function with the help of the time standard library:

Code:

void sleep(unsigned int msec) {
    clock_t stop_ = msec + clock();
    while ( stop_ > clock() ) ;  // don't forget the semi-colon
}

Originally Posted by lilhawk2892

heh heh sorry i head the description of what i wanted a little bit wrong sorry..
the game is final fantasy2

Where? When you're choosing a name, or you mean the way they display the scrolling text in game?

yes ..no sortof


well its not exactly what i wanted but i suppose its good enouph

but download final fantasy 2 the first thing you see should be what i want

Well what else did you want it to do?

If you want the top line to disappear, then there is no standard way to do that. You can easily do it with curses or conio.h or window.h, though.

How about this?

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <windows.h>
using namespace std;
const int screen_size = 20;

void clrscr(void);
void gotoxy(int x, int y);

int main()
{
   HANDLE h = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
   WORD wOldColorAttr;
   CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO csbi;
   
   GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(h, &csbi);
   wOldColorAttr = csbi.wAttributes;
   
   SetConsoleTextAttribute(h, FOREGROUND_RED | FOREGROUND_INTENSITY);

   string display("FINAL FANTASY 2");
   clrscr();
   int x = 1;
   for (string::size_type i=0; i<display.length(); i++)
   {
      char ch = ' ';
      for (;;)
      {
         for (int y=0; y<screen_size; y++)
         {
            gotoxy(x, y);
            cout << ch << flush;
         }
         Sleep(50);
         if (ch == display[i])
            break;
         ch++;
      }
      Sleep(200);
      x += 2;
   }
   
   cin.get();
   SetConsoleTextAttribute(h, wOldColorAttr);
   return 0;
}

void clrscr(void)
{
    COORD                       coordScreen = { 0, 0 };
    DWORD                       cCharsWritten;
    CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO  csbi;
    DWORD                       dwConSize;
    HANDLE                      hConsole = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
    GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(hConsole, &csbi);
    dwConSize = csbi.dwSize.X * csbi.dwSize.Y;
    FillConsoleOutputCharacter(hConsole, TEXT(' '), 
                               dwConSize, coordScreen, &cCharsWritten);
    GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(hConsole, &csbi);
    FillConsoleOutputAttribute(hConsole, csbi.wAttributes, 
                               dwConSize, coordScreen, &cCharsWritten);
    SetConsoleCursorPosition(hConsole, coordScreen);
}

void gotoxy(int x, int y)
{
  COORD coord;
  coord.X = x;
  coord.Y = y;
  SetConsoleCursorPosition(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), coord);
}

>but wheres the code segment that controls how many letters there are
If you make the banner to be displayed a string, there's a length() member function you can use to control your for-loop. So it would be:

Code:

   for (string::size_type i=0; i<name_of_string.length(); i++)

Since in this case I called the banner striing "display", it's this loop:

Code:

   for (string::size_type i=0; i<display.length(); i++)

I guess I could have called it title or banner. Those might be better names.