post  Clear screen and gotoxy functions.Codeblocks.

ashmew2 (7)   Link to this post
Hi , How do i print things anywhere on the screen ? Suppose i want to bring in the middle of the output screen.And also , how do i clear the screen ?
Plus , how do i use Sleep function ? like i want to print "hello" , one character at a time. like
"h" then after 0.5 second "e" then 0.5 second then "l" and so on...
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jsmith (3799)   Link to this post
Use a library such as curses. That will give you all of that functionality.
ashmew2 (7)   Link to this post
Thanks jsmith..You are like my programming idol really..You seem to have an answer to everything :D
Keep up the good work!
danyaljj (11)   Link to this post
Hi jsmith and ashmew2!
I have same problem...
unfortunately i didn't understand the solution.
guide please ! thx.
jsmith (3799)   Link to this post
There is a library available for Unix called "curses" that provides text screen manipulation functions such as gotoxy() etc.
Duoas (3497)   Link to this post
NCurses
Unix, Linux, POSIX platforms
http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/

PDCurses
Win32, DOS, OS/2, Plan 9, SNES, etc
http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/

NCURSES Programming HOWTO
(A guide for getting started with Curses)
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/

Hope this helps.

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