Re: print something on console at the position I want with printf?

google-rambo88 wrote:
Hi....
I'd like to print something on console at the position I want.

for example in dos, I cann print my message on x,y co¡¤or¡¤di¡¤nate

printxy ( int x , int y , char *msg )
{
gotoxy ( x , y );
printf ("%s", msg );

}


but on Linux console , I don't know how to print on the x,y coordiante I
want...

While you could send the appropriate escape sequences directly, the curses library was developped for this purpose and does this in a device-independent manner.

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