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From: [e-mail] (Barry L. Wallis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Stream I/O in Turbo C++
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Date: 17 Aug 92 21:11:23 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Dave Sherohman) writes...
>OK, another question for you.  (As was guessed after my last one, I'm fairly
>new to C++... BTW, the actual problem with the struc claiming to have been
>redefined was that the .h file it was in was included twice into one .cpp
>file...  Oops...)  I'm playing with mixing windowing and stream I/O, and I
>can't figure out how to get the window to scroll properly.  When I hit the
>bottom of the window, 'cprintf("\r\n");' will send a linefeed and scroll the
>window up one line, but 'cout << "\r\n";' wraps the cursor back to the top
>of the screen instead of scrolling it.  How can I get the scrolling to work
>without resorting to using cprintf?
>

Check out the constream object. It is new to version 3.x and is the stream
equivalent to conio.h. It includes member functions to handle text mode windows
with the stream keeping track of which window you are using. The interface can
be found in <constrea.h>

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Barry L. Wallis            [e-mail]
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