How can I print a string to the console at specific coordinates in C++?

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Shawn picture Shawn · Nov 4, 2009 · Viewed 51.3k times · Source

I'm trying to print characters in the console at specified coordinates. Up to now I have been using the very ugly printf("\033[%d;%dH%s\n", 2, 2, "str"); But I just had to ask whether C++ had any other way of doing this. The problem is not even that it's ugly, the problem comes up when I try to make myself a prettier function like so:

void printToCoordinates(int x, int y, string text)
{
    printf("\033[%d;%dH%s\n", x, x, text);
}

It doesn't work, even if I typecast to (char*). Another problem is that I have to print out the \n for the page to be refreshed... I just don't enjoy using printf in general.

Similarily to using cout instead of printf, I believe there should be a more recent way of doing this (ideally a way that allows me to easily write strings where I want on the screen, and ideally a way that doesn't required these weird symbols: \033[%d;%dH)

So, do any of you have what I'm looking for?

Answer

Dima picture Dima · Nov 4, 2009

Curses is what you are looking for.

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