how to make clrscr() work

[potential]

guys, please help me...

how do i make clrscr() work? my friend told me to include conio.c, but i think that my version of dev-c++ doesn't have that...so i tried downloading conio.c...but the problem is, clrscr() still doesn't work in my pc but it works in my friend's pc...we're both using dev-c++...

what do i need to do? please help me...

super thanks in advance!

[frrossk]

guys, please help me...

how do i make clrscr() work? my friend told me to include conio.c, but i think that my version of dev-c++ doesn't have that...so i tried downloading conio.c...but the problem is, clrscr() still doesn't work in my pc but it works in my friend's pc...we're both using dev-c++...

what do i need to do? please help me...

super thanks in advance!

Read this: http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread13532-system%28cls%29.html

[anastacia]

HI WEL I USE BORLAND C++. BUT IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK ON ANY VERSION OF C++. JUST VERIFY THIS
1. ARE ALL YOOUR HEADER FILE ON A SINGLE FOLDER. MAYBE YOU COULD HAVE INSTALLED IT NOT PROPERLY.
IN TURBO C++ I USE #INLCUDE

AND I USE CLRSCR();

TRY IT ON YOUR DEV C++. BY THE WAY CAN ANYBODY TELL WATS THIS DEV C++. IS IT ANY DIFFERENT FROM TURBO OR BORLAND C++ :lol:

[Dave Sinkula]

BUT IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK ON ANY VERSION OF C++.

NO, IT ISN'T.BY THE WAY CAN ANYBODY TELL WATS THIS DEV C++. IS IT ANY DIFFERENT FROM TURBO OR BORLAND C++ :lol: HTTP://WWW.BLOODSHED.NET/DEVCPP.HTML

DON'T TYPE IN ALL CAPS .

[jwenting]

Look at the big button on your keyboard marked "Caps Lock". Press it until the CAPITAL LETTERS go away.

[vegaseat]

clrscr() is a presumptuous Borland fetish. Not every user of your program wants it!!!

In Dev C++ you can use system("CLS") to do the trick, the old DOS command. Include the stdlib.h for the system() function.

By the way, Dev C++ is a very nice IDE for a set of open source GNU compilers (mainly GCC and G++). The IDE comes in Windows and Linux versions. For Linux CLS has to be replaced with something else.

[jwenting]

not at all a fetish, just overused by people that read tutorials by other people who abused it :)

There can be good reason to use it, for example if you were creating a fullscreen DOS application in Turbo Vision and wanted to clean up after yourself when terminating it.

[anastacia]

ok guys thanks for the clarification.caps lock on was my typing mistake. sorry

[potential]

thanks for all the help!

[letmec]

Try to use 'fflush()' function with the argument 'stdout'.
When ever you want to clear your screen, just add this fflush(stdout). But remmember that it will fflush all standard out-put. But you use this. :cheesy:

[frrossk]

Try to use 'fflush()' function with the argument 'stdout'. When ever you want to clear your screen, just add this fflush(stdout). But remmember that it will fflush all standard out-put. But you use this. :cheesy:

Did you tested it? I really doubt about that...

[ssuryakiran]

Friends,seems like many of us are having problem in using clrscr() function in DEV C++.We need to know the fact that functions call and return type values which are by default of void type in C but not in c++In c++ we need to tell the function what value is retuned too.
So use void clrscr(void) instead of clrscr().
I hope this works.

[Dave Sinkula]

Please do not resurrect long-dead (and solved) threads.