is it possible to print a character without moving the cursor to the next position ???

i am trying to create a fullscreen-BOX, but as soon as the bottom-right character is printed the screen shifts downward by one line.

help me out guys !!!

What compiler/operating system?

Many windows compilers have a function called getch(), prototyped typically in <conio.h>.

This is a non-standard C library function, and its use is may not be portable to other platforms.

For linux/unix platforms, here is an example of an equivalent function that works for me:

http://www.gidforums.com/t-3386.html



Regards,

Dave

the complier that i am using is Turbo C++ version 3.0 and it's DOS based complier

the function getch() that you are refering to is available in my complier but it is used for getting an INPUT from console
[i.e. it simply gets a character from console but does not echo to the screen]

but i want to OUTPUT a character to console

getch() cannot solve my purpose

I'm sorry, I didn't read your request very carefully. Somehow my poor little peanut-brain registered a request to get user input without echoing it.
I don't know of any standard (or non-standard, for that matter) output functions useable with Turbo C++ that don't advance the cursor. Pre-Windows NT operating systems allowed direct writing to console memory, but modern operating systems vigorously guard against such actions.

Regards,

Dave

No. The OS will output it's prompt, which will cause a newline to appear. The best you can hope for is screen height - 1 unless you stop printing immediately after the last character, and don't exit the program. If this is acceptable, just don't output the last '\n'

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Sorry, Walt, the output functions (printf(), putchar(), etc) always result in an incremented cursor.


(I used the for(;;); stuff to make sure that something else, like getchar(), wouldn't be suspected of affecting the output.)


Regards,

Dave