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

Question

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\");

Answer 1

I have a little different method. Not sure whether this is better than ncurses package, so i leave that for the upvoters to decide.

You can use Graphics package in C++ to output a text to a specific coordinate on your working screen. The syntax is outtextxy(x, y, text) ; Where x & y are coordinates.

One example is:

int main(void) {

    int gdriver = DETECT, gmode;

    int x = 200, y = 200;

  

    initgraph(&gdriver, &gmode, "c:\\tc\\bgi");

  

    outtextxy(x, y, "Hello World");

    closegraph();

 }

This little program will print Hello World in the coordinate (200,200).

For reference to what graphics package can do visit this link