I was wondering how to make a program that can output to every line of the console and not just output a line to be tacked on to the bottom. How can I get control of the whole console like that so I could write console based apps?
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I was wondering how to make a program that can output to every line of the console and not just output a line to be tacked on to the bottom. How can I get control of the whole console like that so I could write console based apps?
You can use curses or similar library to make that kind of UI – check out GNU ncurses for example.
Wikipedia summarises ncurses nicely
To get started, check out the NCURSES Programming HOWTO