I want to create a C++ console application that print some text to different parts of the console. For example in QBasic you can use:
locate(8,5)
print "hi"
And hi would be printed in column 8 line 5. In C++ when I use cout it always prints on the next line, and begins printing in the first column. Is there any way I can do this?
C++ itself does not have this feature, it's I/O model is a fairly simple, sequential one.
If you want to do fancy cursor positioning, you'll need to output (for example) control characters which your terminal will recognise as special commands (such as ANSI or VT escape sequences), or use a library like curses (see ncurses here) which can do a lot of the grunt work for you, not just cursor positioning but also things like text mode windows and so forth.
A library, like ncurses can help you do this.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9451293/c-standard-output-format