Thread: How to set up text-based character movement in c++

Hey everyone, I had a question about character movement for a text base c++ game I wanted to create for sometime. I am fairly new at programming in C++ ( about 6 months) or any other programming language, so I do not know how to make my character move?

I want to be able to move my character, the "@" sign lol, using the arrow keys. I've tried googling and looking it up on the forums, but I could only find a few which talked not that much about the topic and didn't really have no explanation on how to use or why.

Does any one know of a link to a good tutorial? Or if any one could write me a fragment of the function ( not a whole program, ofcourse..)
and explain how it works?

,Thanks!!

Originally Posted by Salem

Which operating system and compiler are you using?

Very crudely, you clear the screen and redraw everything in the updated position(s).

My OS is windows, and I am using the compiler Code::Blocks.

P.S. I do have Microsoft Visual Studios 2010, but I prefer Code::Blocks

Originally Posted by bernt

Code::Blocks is an IDE, not a compiler - it can use a lot of different compilers, as a matter of fact. If you need to check, it should show up in the Build Options window (or something like that, I haven't used Code::Blocks in a while now).
Chances are you're using either MinGW or MSVC. IIRC pdcurses should work with either one; it's probably the easiest way to get started with text-related stuff. There's also functionality for doing this in the Windows API.

Thanks for the clarification! =) Appreciate it.