Position in a C++ Console App

NashuNatta · 2003-07-28T20:07:52

I want to make some text display in center of the screen in a C++ console app. I am using MVC++ and I tried using SetConsoleCursorPosition() and including windows.h, but it doesnt work and I dont know how to use it exactly. Thanks alot.

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Started by NashuNatta July 27, 2003 09:10 PM

13 comments, last by NashuNatta 20 years, 8 months ago

Tiffany_Smith

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July 28, 2003 07:37 PM

heres a little snippet from a game ive been working on, Im unclear as to what youre trying to do but maybe this will help ...

 		switch(_getch())			{				case 75:					bLeft = true;					//left					break;				case 77:					bRight = true;					//right					break;				case 72:					bRotCounterClock = true;					//up					break;				case 80:					bRotClock = true;					//down					break;			}

As you can see, for the arrow keycodes i have 75 for left, 77 for right, 72 for up and 80 for down.

Is this what you are looking for?

NashuNatta

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July 28, 2003 07:45 PM

wow. That was the stupidest problem ever. I didnt add the _ before getch(). I dont know why _getch() is diff from getch() but it is and that is what made the diff. Thanks alot.

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merlin9x9

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July 28, 2003 07:50 PM

The underscore indicates that the function is non-standard (of course, just because a function doesn''t have one, doesn''t mean that it''s standard). Whenever you can use a standard function, do. The standard equivalent to getch is getchar, which is in stdio.h.

Tiffany_Smith

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July 28, 2003 07:54 PM

quote:Original post by NashuNatta
wow. That was the stupidest problem ever. I didnt add the _ before getch(). I dont know why _getch() is diff from getch() but it is and that is what made the diff. Thanks alot.

_getch() is the actual library function, getch() is just a #define to it.

youre welcome.

Tiffany_Smith

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July 28, 2003 08:07 PM

quote:I said ...
_getch() is the actual library function, getch() is just a #define to it.

Hrmmm it appears I could be wrong about that, hopefully someone with a little more experience than myself will come along and set the record straight, because it would be interesting to know.

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