static display 1

[sciguy125]

I've been trying to figure out how to ouput data in a static display. I want stuff to go out to the screen without moving.

[some header]
Time: [some numbers]
Date: [more number]
...

I'd like the descriptions (time and date) to stay in the same place, but have the numbers change. Simply outputing a chunk of info makes it scroll.

Is this possible in C++?

 

[Salem]

I take it you're outputting to a traditional text only terminal of some sort

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[sciguy125]

To the screen using cout

 

[Salem]

http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/

http://web.cs.mun.ca/~rod/ncurses/ncurses.html

curses (or its equivalents ncurses or pdcurses depending on your environment) is a library which allows you to create more complex text screen displays than the simple top-to-bottom scroller of a normal terminal.

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[jstreich]

You might also be able to do the same thing a little less effeciently by always clearing the screen and rewriting everything already printed....

curses are powerful, but a little over kill for certian applications.