I have been writing some small C++ programs lately(such as tic,tat,toe, etc) and I was curious if there was a function avaible to erase all the data viewed in the comand prompt. In my games the board or game would just re-display everytime which has just been getting annoying. So any help would be appreciated. THANKS :)

http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=395538

Standard C++ has no functions to do such a thing. You can use platform specific functions to do so (assuming your platform supports such a thing) or possibly use a console based library to do the same thing (ex: pdcurses).

You can use system("cls") on win32.

Quote: Original post by Driv3MeFar
You can use system("cls") on win32.

You can, but that's a horrible, horrible way to do it.

Quote: Original post by Evil Steve

Quote: Original post by Driv3MeFar
You can use system("cls") on win32.

You can, but that's a horrible, horrible way to do it.

I never said it wasn't, its just a possible solution.

In Win32 console programs, the following are useful...
SetConsoleCursorPosition
FillConsoleOutputCharacter
FillConsoleOutputAttribute

Hey Thanks guys for all the replies. But what the first guy posted was exactly what I was looking for.
I saw that post earlier but I couldnt find it and couldnt remeber the title so I just posted a thread of my own.

EDIT: Except I have come across a new problem. I'm using Visual Studio 2005 EE edition and It cant find the window.h file. Is there a package or something I could download and if so how do I install it?

[Edited by - PB Baller27 on June 13, 2006 9:27:00 AM]

you need to install the Platform SDK if you are using VS EE and programming native win32 apps