How to add animation to a program or code?

[mkannah]

Hi, i've been wondering how some program using codes is animated?

[weaknessforcats]

The same way they do it in the movies: Display an image over and over on top of itself.

[mkannah]

Image? You mean characters? Like '*' ? Thanks.

[weaknessforcats]

You can use characters if you want, like *. For example:

These strings are displayed on top of each other with a 1/2 pause between display. The effect is to see the * travel across the screen:

#include <windows.h>
 
ostream&  pause(ostream& os)
{
     Sleep(500);
     return os;
}
 
int main()
{
    char* str1 = "*     ";
    char* str2 = " *    ";
    char* str3 = "  *   ";
    char* str4 = "   *  ";
    char* str5 = "    * ";
 
    cout << str1 <<pause << "\r"
              << str2 <<pause << "\r"
              << str3<<pause << "\r"
              << str4 <<pause << "\r"
              << str5 <<pause << endl;
 
}