Changing Displayed Text?

Alright, here's my problem.

After messing around with C++, I've came up with this little program:

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    unsigned int secs = 0;
    unsigned int mins = 0;
    unsigned long int hours = 0; //Just in case the person's afk for a looong time :P
    int change = 0;

    cout<<"--AFK 1.0--\n\n";
    cout<<"Press [ENTER] key to continue";
    cin.get();
    cout<<"\n\n";
   
    while(change == 0)
    {
          cout<<"\t\nAFK for "<<hours<<" hours "<<mins<<" minutes "<<secs<<" seconds.";
          Sleep(1000);
          secs++;
         
          if (secs >= 60)
          {
                  mins++;
                  secs = 0;
          }
          if (mins >= 60)
          {
                  hours++;
                  mins = 0;
                 
          }
    }

   
    return 0;
}

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Right?

Well, after Googling the heck out of this, I can't seem to come up with a definite solution aside from putting a

Code:

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system("CLS");

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above the "AFK for" statement.

What I mean is, having the seconds, minutes and hours change without having it display everything over and over again.

Also, if it helps, I am using Dev-C++ to compile all this.

Thank you very much for your time!

Thy this, it should clear the screen every time it goes through the loop :)

Code:

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          system("cls");
          cout<<"\t\nAFK for "<<hours<<" hours "<<mins<<" minutes "<<secs<<" seconds.";
          Sleep(1000);
          secs++;

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Or like this?

Code:

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          cout<<"AFK for "<<hours<<" hours "<<mins<<" minutes "<<secs<<" seconds."<<"\r";
          Sleep(1000);
          secs++;

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This one wont clear the screen, just the line containing that counter you have going there

Yeah i have to agree with Loic, that's probably you're best option. I know what you want it to do, but i dont know exactly how you would go about doing it. It seems like something a windows app would be better suited for but you're not ready for that yet.

Maybe someone else can help ya but i have to say that you should try what Loic said.

Good luck! :)

Ahh, yes, perfect, that did the trick!

I can't thank you guys enough that's exactly what I needed, that was driving me crazy!

What about leap years, Feburary, leap seconds etc? :) I'd look into the functions in ctime/time.h, specifically:

Code:

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time_t start, end;
double elapsed;

time(&start);

// [...]

time(&end);

elapsed = difftime(&end, &start);

std::cout << "Time elapsed: " << elapsed << 's' << std::endl;

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Click on the functions in the above code to get to function documentation.

Also see http://cppreference.com/stddate/ctime.html