Re: Could someone point me to a how-to page...


Timothy Pruett wrote:

> Narf the Mouse wrote:
> > ...Dealing with positioning text and clearing the screen in c++? Either
> > standard commands or a library. I can't seem to find it in
> > www.cplusplus.com
> >
> > Complete c++ newbie/lunatic looking to make a roguelike. I've got a
> > simple one written in basic, so I should be able to manage something.
>
> Curses. If you're a linux user, your installation should already have
> ncurses installed. If you're a Windows user (which I'm willing to bet
> you are), then download pdcurses. There's a ton of info on curses, not
> to mention the incredibly helpful documentation.
>
> Also, curses is (relatively) cross platform, and one of the simpler
> ASCII libraries to use. Don't bother with direct console manipulation
> under Windows, because it's needlessly complex, and you're limited to
> Windows only.

Unfortunatly, I couldn't compile the win32 source code
(http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/), my compiler said it was corrupt
(Aside from being for about five or six versions of the compiler
previous - Visual Studio). The compiled version I found
(http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/pdcurses.htm) would seem to
work if called explicitly.

Unfortunatly, neither of them seem to have written a 'How to call a dll
for newbies'.

Thanks.

.

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