Question

I am trying to use the following code to simulate a simple text-loading animation:

for (int i = 0; i < 15; i ++)
{
    system("cls");

    cout<<disp;
    disp += ".";
    Sleep(100);
}
system("cls");

However, the screen keeps blinking when I’m doing this. Is there a better way I can do this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

It seems like this would do the same thing your code is trying to do:

system("cls");
for (int i=0; i<15; ++i)
{
    cout << '.';
    Sleep(100);
}
system("cls");