Change Output of Console

is there a way to change output of console without clearing the screen? so making some kind of animation?

e.g.

I have used

Code:

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cout << "Hello";

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is there any way I can erase last "lo" and replace it by "p" so I will have "Help" without clearing the screen ? just changing the output like some text file?

I tried using something like this

Code:

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#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
        cout << "abcd";
        long pos = cout.tellp();
        cout.seekp(pos-2);
        cout.write("ef", 2);
        cout.flush();
        cin.get();
        return 0;
}

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but it doesnt work, there is still a "abcd"...

Use the special console API functions.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...=vs.85%29.aspx

You can also try using backspace. The following prints "help"

Code:

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int main()
{
        cout << "hello" << "\b\b" << "p " << endl;
        return 0;
}

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The backslash character constants are
\b backspace
\f formfeed
\n newline
\r return
\t horizontal tab
\" double quote
\' single quote
\\ backslash
\v vertcal tab
\a alert
\N octal constant
\xN hexadecimal constant
\? question mark

this will print the help, but it wont print hello and then erase "lo" and replace it by "p", well yeah it does that ,but before it shows up on the screen

Code:

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int main()
{
        cout << "hello";
        Sleep(2000);
        cout << "\b\b" << "p ";
        return 0;
]

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If you need anything more sophisticated you should be looking at the special console functions. I gave the link in post #2.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by 2kaud

Code:

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int main()
{
        cout << "hello";
        Sleep(2000);
        cout << "\b\b" << "p ";
        return 0;
]

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If you need anything more sophisticated you should be looking at the special console functions. I gave the link in post #2.

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ty, this one works, I guess mine didnt work since I was using cin.get() to go to the next step and it couldn't delete previous chars since there werent any on that line... :/