Is there a function to set the cusor(the blinking line) in a console app back to the beginning? Please respond ASAP and thanks.

Im not sure exactly which tutorial it is, but if you look over at www.gametutorials.com there are some nice tutorials about console programming which cover what you want. Check out the C++ tutorials section.

don''t double post everybody hates it. Yes i''m sure there is a way to put the cursor back to the beginning of the line, it is an escape key, i think \g. if thats not then go try every letter.

To go back letter by letter, you can use \b.

There must be other things you can do, though, but I''m not really that knowledgable. If you are using Windows, I think there is function, something like SetConsoleCursorPosition(), that might help - have a search at MSDN.

I''m not sure, as you did not say, whether or not you wanted the text outputted to the console to remain visible, but you could use system("cls"); to clear the screen, leaving the cursor at the top (in its original position).

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would gotoxy(1,1) work?

Only in some versions of ? I believe. I don''t think it works in VC++ either. I could be wrong.

I think the equivalent gotoxy() function for Windows'' command prompt is, as I mentioned earlier, SetConsoleCursorPosition(), or at least it is something that you can use. I looked on the net and found this code - seems to work fine:



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