Clear screen without blinking

[maniac]

Hello! I have a one simple question :D. I want to output to the console some symbols. Let's say that i have a loop.

for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) cou << "* ";

Then I want to output other symbols but I want to overwrite the previous symbols. I know I can use system("cls"); but it blinks if I try to output the same characters. For example if I have:

for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) cou << "* ";
system("cls");
for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) cou << "* ";

After I run this code the first loop outputs ten "*". Then there is a blink and there are again ten "*" shown. How can I avoid this blink? :)

[Computergeek01]

Courtesy of Duoas: http://www.cplusplus.com/articles/4z18T05o/

[maniac]

Thanks for the link! And now if I use one of these methods there won't be a blink? :)

[Computergeek01]

That depends on which one you use. Also the console isn't double buffered or anything fancy like that so you may still see some tearing\"blinking" depending on the hardware.

[maniac]

Thanks, that helped :D