just stay away from ncourses, that is a can of worms and more problems that it worth :) --- Tom St Denis <tstdenis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió: > Antonio Eduardo Fermiano wrote: > > I want to make a console program where I can > modify certain parts of already written text, like a > progress % > > number and some indicators written some lines > above. Can someone give me a way to do it? > > > > Don't know if helps, but I'm using the GCC port > for windows that comes with Dev-cpp. > > > > > Kids these days ... > > Look up what terminal your console is emulating. > (hint: think ANSI). > > Most likely the basics like "\r" will work to return > to the start of a > line. But if you want to get more fancy you'll have > to look up the > other escape codes. If you want to go all portable, > consider learning > ncurses which does most of this for you. > > Tom > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sé un Mejor Amante del Cine ¿Quieres saber cómo? ¡Deja que otras personas te ayuden! http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/reto/entretenimiento.html