GOTOXY---WHY doesn't it work;(

[Anonymous]

can some one help me get the GOTOXY goign in dev c++?

[Andrew]

Because Mingw doesn't include functions like that in its conio.h (they're really DOS functions and we're creating 32-bit Windows binaries here).

You'll want to use the Win32 console API.  I'm going to be nice and show you how it's done:

First, make sure to #include <windows.h>

Here's your gotoxy function:

void gotoxy(int X, int Y)
{
COORD coord;
coord.X = X;
coord.Y = Y;

HANDLE hConsole = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
SetConsoleCursorPosition(hConsole, coord);
}

Now anywhere in your code you can simply type something like "gotoxy(3,5)" and the cursor will move to that point.

Hope that helps.

[Anonymous]

You could also #include <conio.c> which is a work-a-round file written by Hongli Lai, tkorrovi, and Andrew Westcott. It is public  domain and was included in Dev-Cpp 4.9.6.0, or maybe earlier.

Try this console app...

#include <conio.c>

int main(void)
{
  gotoxy(10, 12);
  printf("This should be at 10,12\n");
  system("PAUSE");   
  return 0;
}

In this case, you can get away with just including <conio.c> because conio.c itself includes conio.h, stdio.h, stdlib.h, and windows.h. The  non-debug executable is 5k.

To make a smaller executable, try this...

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <windows.h>
//Note that conio.c is *NOT* included.

int main(void)
{
  //This is the actual gotoxy function from conio.c.
  void gotoxy(int x, int y)
  {
   COORD c;
   c.X = x - 1;
   c.Y = y - 1;
   SetConsoleCursorPosition (GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), c);
  }

  gotoxy(10, 12);
  printf("This should be at 10,12\n");

  system("PAUSE");   
  return 0;
}

This console executable is 3k... you save 2k. (It would still be a bargin at twice the price. hehe.) Hope this helps.