Create Your Own Console Graphics Library in C

Question

What I need to create is something simila to the CRT unit in Pascal or the old Graphics.h in Turbo C++, I am using the MinGW compiler. Is there any way to implement the GotoXY,ClrScr,Sleep,'SetClr' etc. functions using, maybe the winapi kernel library or something? Or is there already a library made for MinGW that does all this. I need it to run on a Console Window, and only be text based.

Answer 1

You could use curses , there's a port of pdcurses for mingw here http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Community_Supplied_Links

curses is a little odd to use, it was originally written for terminals on unix.

(You can have that sweet coloured and blincking text 90's gui)

Answer 2

I have similar requirements for a project I've working on, so I started a project that might serve as a potential alternate answer for you. It's still a young project, but it will grow to be a bit more useful as things go along. It has an add-on library to integrate with ncurses, but it essentially just "renders" ANSI-encoded strings.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ansigl

Hope that helps!