Library for random-access console screen functionality?

[sherifffruitfly]

Hi,

I'm just learning cpp, and something I've had on my mind for awhile is
to make a little "virtual console screen" class structure.

In it I want to be able to do "text animation" - moving letters across
the screen position-by-position, and whatnot.

First thought was to make a 2d array representing the screen, do
whatever updates i want, then cout it all - update by update, frame by
frame.

I assume this would be absurdly slow?

Is there a library already out there that contains this sort of
functionality? It'd be cool to check approaches taken by others...

Just to be clear - I'm imagining this all taking place in console-text
output - no graphics of any sort are in view here.

[noone]

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:59:56 -0700, sherifffruitfly wrote:

Hi,

I'm just learning cpp, and something I've had on my mind for awhile is to
make a little "virtual console screen" class structure.

In it I want to be able to do "text animation" - moving letters across the
screen position-by-position, and whatnot.

First thought was to make a 2d array representing the screen, do whatever
updates i want, then cout it all - update by update, frame by frame.

I assume this would be absurdly slow?

Is there a library already out there that contains this sort of
functionality? It'd be cool to check approaches taken by others...

Just to be clear - I'm imagining this all taking place in console-text
output - no graphics of any sort are in view here.

it's not c++ specific, but under unix, curses and its successor ncurses,
are used for text handling on CRTs.

[Rolf Magnus]

noone wrote:

it's not c++ specific, but under unix, curses and its successor ncurses,
are used for text handling on CRTs.

And even on TFTs, too.