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Posted 15 December 2005 - 09:25 PM
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I am trying to find a way to center output on the screen. The

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Re: Center text with cout?
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walstib, on 16 Dec, 2005 - 10:52 AM, said:
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string, get the length of the string, subtract from 80 and
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Re: Center text with cout?
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born2c0de, on 16 Dec, 2005 - 05:55 AM, said:
walstib, on 16 Dec, 2005 - 10:52 AM, said:
Is it possible to get the text and the variable assigned to a
string, get the length of the string, subtract from 80 and
divide by 2 to pad left side with that many spaces?
Yes...that's how you do it.
It's simply putting that formula into use. Code Snippets
This Function is what you need. C Snippets

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01 #include <iostream>
02 #include <string> Java Snippets
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04 void centerstring(char* s) Visual Basic Snippets
05 {
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06 int l=strlen(s);
07 int pos=(int)((80-l)/2); VB.NET Snippets
08 for(int i=0;i<pos;i++)
09 cout<<" "; ASP.NET Snippets
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11 cout<<s;
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i have created a more "accurate" way of doing this operation. ColdFusion Snippets
im a N00B at programming, but I've made some far out S#!t
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The above code only works if the width of the screen is 80,
but my slight changes make text centering work at any DOS
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void centerstring(char* s) Functional

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hOut = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
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NewSBSize = GetLargestConsoleWindowSize(hOut);
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this captures the screen width and manipulates the cout
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walstib, on 15 Dec, 2005 - 08:25 PM, said:
Hello,
I am trying to find a way to center output on the screen. The
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number of spaces.

Here is a very simple function you can use to center it: Sé el primero de tus amigos en indicar que te
01 void PlaceCursor(const int x, const int y) { gusta esto.
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03 HANDLE hConsole =
GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
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05 COORD PlaceCursorHere;
06 PlaceCursorHere.X = x;
07 PlaceCursorHere.Y = y;
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09 SetConsoleCursorPosition(hConsole,
PlaceCursorHere);
10 return;
11 }

An example of it would be:

1 PlaceCursor(25, 25); printf("Hello World! I'm

centered");

Of course, you could expand on that (after you get better and
move onto more advanced stuff with C/C++), and have it
check the size of the console screen (doing simple math, you
can find where the "center" is).
Here's an example of PlaceCursor used in conjunction with
your.. snippet:

1 PlaceCursor(25, 25);
2 cout << "Your login ID is " << loginID << endl;
3 cout << "Your password is " << password << endl;
4 cout << "The beginning balance on your account is
$" << balance << endl;

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born2c0de, on 16 Dec, 2005 - 05:55 AM, said:
walstib, on 16 Dec, 2005 - 10:52 AM, said:
Is it possible to get the text and the variable assigned to a
string, get the length of the string, subtract from 80 and
divide by 2 to pad left side with that many spaces?
Yes...that's how you do it.
It's simply putting that formula into use.

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This Function is what you need.

01 #include <iostream>
02 #include <string>
03
04 void centerstring(char* s)
05 {
06 int l=strlen(s);
07 int pos=(int)((80-l)/2);
08 for(int i=0;i<pos;i++)
09 cout<<" ";
10
11 cout<<s;
12 }

How would you center a variable that contains a string value

with this code. This only works if you type in the string as a
constant.
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Re: Center text with cout?
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pcunderwear, on 25 December 2008 - 09:25 PM, said:
void centerstring(char* s)
{
HANDLE hOut;
hOut = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
COORD NewSBSize;
NewSBSize = GetLargestConsoleWindowSize(hOut);
int l=strlen(s);
int pos=(int)((NewSBSize.X-l)/2);
for(int i=0;i<pos;i++)
cout<<" ";
cout<<s;
}

Hey, what exactly do i need in my header to make "HANDLE"

work and all the other stuff?
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Re: Center text with cout?
Posted 18 December 2010 - 12:26 PM
instead of the for loop which is quite harsh on the processor,
one could always just
int pos = 40 + int(l/2); cout << setw(pos);

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