Clr Screen + Pausing

[DeAdMeAt]

Well, i got the clear screen code from that topic, but now (im making a win32 consol app) and like i wanna make a word "dance" accross the screen, but it executes everything so fast that all they would see is the last name and its position. How would i pause it so they have time to see it or somtin, heres my code so far, ( i dont know if im doing it right cuz when i endl the last word is still on the top line in the program):

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#include <iostream.h>
#include <cstdlib>
main()
{
   cout<<"Hi"<<endl;
   system("cls");
   cout<<" Hi"<<endl;
   system("cls");
   cout<<"  Hi"<<endl;
   system("cls");
   cout<<"   Hi"<<endl;
   return 0;
}


[Justin]

Use the sleep function after each system("cls");

sleep(1000); // Time in milliseconds (i believe, look it up)

[Christopher]

Yes that is the way to do it. More help on the SLeep() fnction. 1000 milliseconds = 1 second. Just in case you didn't know already. I wish I could see these post faster I want to be the first person to help out a beginner.

[DeAdMeAt]

is there a header file that i have to include to make it work? cuz i just tried it and it didnt work, then i tried putting time.h and that didnt work:

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#include <iostream.h>
#include <cstdlib>

main()
{
   cout<<"Hi"<<endl;
   system("cls");
   sleep(500);
   cout<<" Hi"<<endl;
   system("cls");
   sleep(500);
   cout<<"  Hi"<<endl;
   system("cls");
   sleep(500);
   cout<<"   Hi"<<endl;
   return 0;
}


Error: error C2065: 'sleep' : undeclared identifier

so im "guessing" that im missing a header file i need to include?

[twm]

>is there a header file that i have to include to make it work?
Yes. But since sleep is not ANSI defined, you don't know for sure where it is. Though by your use of "cls", I'll assume you're on a Windows box:

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#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;

int main ( ) {
  cout<<"Waiting"<<flush;
  Sleep(200);
  cout<<"."<<flush;
  Sleep(200);
  cout<<"."<<flush;
  Sleep(200);
  cout<<"."<<flush;
  Sleep(200);
  cout<< endl <<"Done"<<endl;
}


[HARiS_P]

also a thing you may not have noticed DeAdMeAt is that Sleep is with a capital S. It's really easy to forget to capitalize the S and might frustrate you quite a bit.

[teeyester]

twm
Trying to follow along here....been trying to get sleep to work for a while..including #windows.h does it on my compiler, but is there a reason why you flush the buffer on each side of the sleep function??
Just curious..........

[Jimbo]

i believe that cout << "something" does not automatically flush the stream. if thats true, you would have to flush it to make each "." appear before the call to Sleep(). there are some things that automatically flush the stream. cout << endl is one of them

[jgbauman]

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#include <windows.h>
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That was a nice one, Mr. Tab Window Manager ;-)