Nico Heinze wrote: > --- In [email protected], Oviaprasad D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Sharma >> Sorry for the late reply I went for Holiday >> you can do with same with curses.h > <snip> > > What about using curses with standard I/O? Won't work, I guess. At > least until now I've never heard of curses working for stdio filters. > Not to forget that -I'm tempted to say "of course"- Microsoft never > adopted curses for their (incomplete) POSIX conformant parts of > Windows; meaning that curses programs can't be compiled under Windows > (at least not without additional libraries). > > As explained by some other people: there is no portable way in C/C++ > to clear the screen. You always have to look at the particular > environment in which a program runs. > > Regards, > Nico
I was pretty sure I used the ncurses library for both clearing/manipulating the screen and getting keyboard input on Windows and Linux at some point in time. Not sure about standard handles (stdin/stdout/stderr) but I wasn't too concerned about that since there are already plenty of functions for those. -- Thomas Hruska CubicleSoft President Ph: 517-803-4197 *NEW* MyTaskFocus 1.1 Get on task. Stay on task. http://www.CubicleSoft.com/MyTaskFocus/
