Hi.

>I tried adding escape sequences but the windows console does not
>interpret the escape sequences. It just prints a left arrow char
>when it sees an escape char. It seems the console is _not_ ANSI
>compatible! I cannot find any mention of cursor-placing functions
>such as gotoxy() in the on-line help.
>
>Anybody know how to place the text in a Visual C console app console?


With the Borland tools at least, I see that gotoxy() is defined in conio.h.
 Maybe you've got a similiar header file?

Here's an example:

#include <conio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
   textbackground(0);      // black background
   while (!kbhit())
   {
      textcolor(rand()%256);
      gotoxy(rand()%80, rand()%25);
      cprintf("Hey!");
   }
   getch();
   clrscr();
   return 0;
}


newell