Rewrite content in terminal as basic as possible (JAVA)

Asked Dec 16 '19 at 12:11

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I want to be able to output some simple graphic in the terminal. To do so, I have to rewrite the characters in the terminal. I know that this is possible in C, but I don't know how to do it in JAVA.

So, to clarify what I want, here an example:

. . . . . .

If this is the terminal and I want to put an asterisk at the 2nd position in the 2nd line, I want to overwrite everything and the terminal should only display:

. . . . . .

. * . . . .

. . . . . .

How can I accomplish this in an as simple JAVA-Code as possible (preferably without special libraries).

Thanks for the time!

(Essentially, I want to program the game of Life with a visualization in the terminal)

asked Dec 16 '19 at 12:11

Sebastian Mueller

let us know what you have tried – sidgate Dec 16 '19 at 12:12
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4573123/java-updating-text-in-the-command-line-without-a-new-line – sidgate Dec 16 '19 at 12:15
You are probably looking for something like `ncurses` but in Java: https://github.com/mabe02/lanterna – Oo.oO Dec 16 '19 at 12:16
Googling ANSI escape codes would probably help, if you're in a console which supports it. – BeUndead Dec 16 '19 at 12:16

Rewrite content in terminal as basic as possible (JAVA)

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