Update screen in C console

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Im tring to make a snake game in consoles whit C. My question is how can i update the screen better than doing system("cls"); every time in the game loop, because that causes screen flicker and i dont like it.

whatever you try, its gonna be hard to get it super portable. i suggest using something like ncurses to abstract this stuff away — Steve Cox, Jun 02 '14 at 20:49

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 02 '14 at 21:19

I think that what you want to do can be achieved by using termcaps/ncurses.

Last time I had to do something like that I used this website. It may help you as well :

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/

The thing is that it won't be portable to windows.

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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Yami beat me.

NCURSES is what you want.

If you need something on Windows you could try the suggestion supplied here: Is ncurses available for windows?

EDIT: I would have just commented, but I do not have the reputation.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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