• CY (5/5) Feb 24 2002 How can I program to move the cursor to a specific position, change text
• Richard Johnson (7/17) Feb 25 2002 You'll probably need to make use of the curses library which provides th...

"CY" <lcy hkem.com> writes:

How can I program to move the cursor to a specific position, change text
color or console background color, if I compile the code using g++ in UNIX,
just like doing so by including windows.h and use functions like
SetConsoleCursorPosition" and "SetConsoleTextAttribute" in VC++?

Thanks!

Richard Johnson <rich REMOVETHISBITnorthernsky.uklinux.net> writes:

"CY" <lcy hkem.com> wrote in news:a5cocp$152o$1 digitaldaemon.com:

 How can I program to move the cursor to a specific position, change
 text color or console background color, if I compile the code using
 g++ in UNIX, just like doing so by including windows.h and use
 functions like SetConsoleCursorPosition" and "SetConsoleTextAttribute"
 in VC++? 
 
 Thanks!
 
 
 

You'll probably need to make use of the curses library which provides these 
sorts of functions under Unix. It's usually a case of including curses.h or 
ncurses.h - curses is the traditional library under unix, ncurses is a 
modern free clone of the curses library which you often get distributed 
with linux.

Richard.