Split screen display with a win32 console app

[Azimer]

I am writing a hangman game program for class which outputs to the windows command prompt. I would like to have the top half or third of the command prompt display the game information such as "# of guesses wrong", "letters guessed incorrectly", the disguised word itself and the person being hanged. If someone could point me in the right direction that would be appreciated.

[blackcoder41]

Just a guess that this is what you need.

//gotoxy using windows.h
void gotoxy (int x, int y) {
    COORD coord; // coordinates
    coord.X = x; // X and Y coordinates
    coord.Y = y;
    // moves to the coordinates
    SetConsoleCursorPosition(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), coord);
}

[Duthomhas]

gohome()
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/22687/page2.html#msg121058

gotoxy()
Windows code above by blackcoder41.
POSIX code follows

#include <term.h>
#include <unistd.h> 

bool gotoxy( int x, int y )
  {
  if (!cur_term)
    {
    int result;
    setupterm( NULL, STDOUT_FILENO, &result );
    if (result <= 0)
      return false;
    }
  putp( tparm( tigetstr( "cup" ), y, x, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ) );
  return true;
  }

See the notes about the POSIX function in the other thread.

Hope this helps.

[Azimer]

after some research it looks like vc++2005 express does not have windows.h, ty for the help

[Duthomhas]

Hmm, that is messed up.

It looks like you have to either download and create the PlatformSDK directorys and integrate them into the IDE (info here)
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/vcgeneral/thread/2bfed529-fb6d-48a3-ad48-fc6301486646/

Or, what I would suggest, download a later version, like VS2008.

Alas.

[blackcoder41]

http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/E/5/1E5F1C0A-0D5B-426A-A603-1798B951DDAE/VS2010Express1.iso

[Azimer]

You guys are great, ty

Before reading this i came up with a possible solution: could i use a clear screen command at the top of my while loop (before the initial output, after the resulting iteration and substitution of characters) to create the illusion of a static display?

[Duthomhas]

It would blink each time you used it, and it is a security hole, but yes, that would work..