C++ Question?

Question

I'm making a small game and I want some text to show up for a certain amount of time, and then be cleared off with the
system("cls"); command without any user interaction. How would I do this?

Answer 1

The easiest way is to use a Sleep(milliseconds) function. For example:
Sleep(2000)
will pause the program for 2 seconds and resume the execution.
You would have to include "windows.h" if you are working in Visual Studio

Answer 2

The simplest way would be to just do a 'for' or 'while' loop that does nothing, like this:

unsigned int t;
(print message)
for (t=0;t<10000;t++) {}
// don't forget the braces above
(clear screen)

unsigned int t;
(print message)
t=0;
while (t<10000)
t++; // don't need braces
(clear screen)

Unfortunately, the speed of the loop varies with the speed of the computer.
If you're programming in DOS with the Turbo C++ 3.0 compiler, then you can use the delay() function specified in DOS.H.

There's also the time functions in TIME.H
You would get the time with a function, and then use a 'while' loop that polls the time function until a certain number of seconds has elapsed.

Answer 3

I would print something on the screen without printing a caridge return and line feed character.

Then wait for few seconds.

Then print an equal number of backspace characters......

Answer 4

u might want to look at the documentation for the time.h header file

Answer 5

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