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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Lattice C++
Message-ID: <21403@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 8 May 91 20:20:01 GMT
References: <1467@loki.une.oz.au>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1467@loki.une.oz.au> kevin@loki.une.oz.au (Kevin Pollard) writes:
>I've been looking {at Lattice C++ on an Amiga.

>But how would I clear the screen first? In MS-DOS/TurboC  the 
>    clrscr()
>function would do it. Is there any such thing in Amiga/Lattice C++ ? 

Clear what screen?  Your program doesn't own the WorkBench screen, so you
obviously can't clear it.  To clear the window your program is running within,
assuming it's a normal console window, try:

	cout << "\233H\233J";

or maybe

	cout << "\014";

The cout stream is usually buffered, so you need to either turn off buffering
or follow the clearing functions with a "\n" to flush the buffer.  I think
there's a stream method for either unbuffering or flushing the buffer without
a <CR>, check the streams.h file.

>Kevin Pollard			Internet:	kevin@loki.une.oz.au

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