system clear in c++

[nickyeng]

i have a function that clear the screen and then display array to cout.
i compiled no error no warning, i run it, the screen really get "clear" but it does not display anything to cout, and it "clear screen" to blanks for 2 seconds, the screen return to this :

Here is my coding:

/* screen.h */
#ifndef _SCREEN_H_
#define _SCREEN_H_
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <cstdlib>
 
#include "array2d.h"
 
namespace Game{
    using namespace std;
    class Screen{
        public:
        Screen(): Xsize(80) , Ysize (23), myArray (Xsize,Ysize){};
 
        ~Screen(){}
 
        /* clear the previous screen and display new screen image with Xsize Ysize */
        void Paint(){
 
            /* clear the screen */
            system("clear");
 
            // and then display the screen with width and height
 
            for(unsigned y = 0; y < Ysize; y++){
                for(unsigned x = 0; x < Xsize; x++){
                    cout << myArray.Get(Xsize , Ysize);
                }
            }
        }
 
        private:
        unsigned Xsize;
        unsigned Ysize;
        Array2D<char> myArray;
        string status;
 
 

/* testgame.cpp */
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include "screen.h"
#include "array2d.h"
 
using namespace std;
using namespace Game;
 
int main(){
        Screen s;
        s.Paint();
 
        cout << "Testing screen display..." << endl;
 
    return 0;
}
 

I insist want to use system("clear"), but i guess the problem is within the function Paint() where after system("clear"), it cannot continue to execute.

What's the problem?
Please help.
thanks.
Nicky Eng.

[DeMan]

This may nopt be the source of ur prob but methinks:
cout << myArray.Get(Xsize , Ysize);

should be
cout << myArray.Get(x , y);

firstly Xsize & Ysize are probably outside the bounds of the array (because the indexing starts at 0, and secondly I assume you are trying to loop through all the elemnts in the array

[nickyeng]

thanks man.

Nick