I use these two functions in animating my words with the help of loops. And it works in Turbo C but when I used it in the dev c/c++ it was all mistake... why? anyone knows?

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: I use these two functions in animating my words with the help of
: loops. And it works in Turbo C but when I used it in the dev c/c++
: it was all mistake... why? anyone knows?
:

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These functions will only work for Turbo C. In Dev C++ you need to use the Win32 Console API to do these things. Try to compile (in Dev C++) a class I posted on my site:

http://www.codexxi.com/MyBlocks.html#atConsoleObj

It mimics the Turbo C style functions in Win32 Console environment.

:
: These functions will only work for Turbo C. In Dev C++ you need to
: use the Win32 Console API to do these things. Try to compile (in Dev
: C++) a class I posted on my site:
:
: http://www.codexxi.com/MyBlocks.html#atConsoleObj
:
: It mimics the Turbo C style functions in Win32 Console
: environment.

I can't understand what you said in red font above.

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: :
: : These functions will only work for Turbo C. In Dev C++ you need to
: : use the Win32 Console API to do these things. Try to compile (in Dev
: : C++) a class I posted on my site:
: :
: : http://www.codexxi.com/MyBlocks.html#atConsoleObj
: :
: : It mimics the Turbo C style functions in Win32 Console
: : environment.
:
: I can't understand what you said in red font
: above.
:

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There's a huge difference between the way DOS and Win32 access the screen and video-cards. In DOS the clrscr could simply place a lot of zeros in a part of the memory, thereby erasing the screen. In Win32 there is no such part in the memory, thus this makes the DOS clrscr useless. To code clrscr in Win32, you need to clear the screenbuffer associated with the console window. Since the OS handles the maintainance of that buffer, you need to tell the OS (i.e. Win32 Console API) to clear the buffer.

I still can't get it ???
Here is my code:

#include <stdio.h>

main()
{

int a;

clrscr();

for(a=1;a<=77;a++)
{
      clrscr();
      gotoxy(a,12);
      printf("CUTE");
      delay(3000);
}

getche();

}

My code worked in Turbo C but in some compiler it does'nt work... What could shall I put to show same output.???

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: I still can't get it ???
: Here is my code:
:
:

: 
: #include <stdio.h>
: 
: main()
: {
: 
: int a;
: 
: clrscr();
: 
: for(a=1;a<=77;a++)
: {
:       clrscr();
:       gotoxy(a,12);
:       printf("CUTE");
:       delay(3000);
: }
: 
: getche();
: 
: }
: 

:
:
:
: My code worked in Turbo C but in some compiler it does'nt work...
: What could shall I put to show same output.???
:

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: THANK YOU AND GODBLESS !!!
: from playagain
: ============================

:

Download the code AsmGuru62 gave you. In there is a gotoxy() procedure and a clrscr() procedure. Change your code to use those instead.

I downloaded the code of asmguru but when I opened it, I was surprised because I can't understand the code... Kindly give me a revised code of my code that works in dev c/c++ or at other compilers rather than turbo c ???

Please Please Please :) :) :)

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: I downloaded the code of asmguru but when I opened it, I was
: surprised because I can't understand the code... Kindly give me a
: revised code of my code that works in dev c/c++ or at other
: compilers rather than turbo c ???
:
: Please Please Please :) :) :)
:

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clrscr() and gotoxy() are borland specific.
For refrence, graphics.h is borland specific as well, so
it wont work either.

Windows does not allow 32bit programs direct access to memory.
This is to protect other programs and data to be overwritten.

Under DOS, text mode memory is useually b800h:0, which can be
accessed through a pointer, so it is easy to create clrscr()
and gotoxy(). However, DevC++ compilies 32bit programs, so
Windows will not allow this.

In order to access system resources (such as text mode memory),
you have to go through Windows. To do this, you need to use the
Win32 PSDK (Platform Software Development Kit) ak, the Win32 API.

MSDN can be a great refrence

Forgers Win32 API tutorial

Hope this helps!

@PH Staff: Thanks alot for adding the link tag!

Posted this before...:

/* ConsoleFunctions.h */

#ifndef __WINAPI_CONSOLE_WRAPPER_H
#define __WINAPI_CONSOLE_WRAPPER_H
                              
void gotoxy (int x, int y);
void clrscr (void);

#endif /* __WINAPI_CONSOLE_WRAPPER_H */

 /* ConsoleFunctions.c */
#include "ConsoleFunctions.h"                      
#include <windows.h>
   
void gotoxy(int x, int y)
{
  static HANDLE hStdout = NULL;
  COORD coord;

  coord.X = x;
  coord.Y = y;

  if(!hStdout)
  {
    hStdout = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
  }
  
  SetConsoleCursorPosition(hStdout,coord);
}
   
void clrscr(void)
{
  static HANDLE hStdout = NULL;      
  static CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO csbi;
  const COORD startCoords = {0,0};   
  DWORD dummy;
  
  if(!hStdout)               
  {
    hStdout = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
    GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(hStdout,&csbi);
  }
  
  FillConsoleOutputCharacter(hStdout,
                             ' ',
                             csbi.dwSize.X * csbi.dwSize.Y,
                             startCoords,
                             &dummy);    
  gotoxy(0,0);
}

I really appreciate your efforts but I'm a beginner in C so I still can't understand what are the essence of your codes in my problems. Can someone with kindhearted help me to understand those codes and where to put them?

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Take what I posted and make a .h file and a .c file of it. Then include the .h file from your program and add the .c to the project, compile link & run.

#include "ConsoleFunctions.h"
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
  
int main(void)
{     
  printf("Printing something\r\n");
  system("pause"); 
  clrscr();
  printf("Screen is cleared\r\n");
  
  return 0;  
}

It's so easy just try
system("cls")
instead of clrscr() I think it will work.
B)