Clear the Colsole Window

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Josh

Hi Guys,

I have written a console application in C#. I wish to printout a percentage
to the screen as the program is running.

Does anyone know how to clear the console window?
or does anyone konw how to do this?

Thanks
Josh
 
Josh said:
Hi Guys,

I have written a console application in C#. I wish to printout a
percentage to the screen as the program is running.

Does anyone know how to clear the console window?
or does anyone konw how to do this?
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Here's some links to look at:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q99261/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/console_functions.asp

But in general it's better to stream information to the console. If you
need to show a progress bar, a winform is the right tool for the job.

David
 
Hi,

For displaying progress you can "hack" it by sending a carriage return (\r)
without new line (\n) thus overwriting the old value. Example:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
for(int i = 0; i < 100; i+=5)
{
Console.Write("\rProgress: {0}%\t\t\t", i);
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(300);
}
Console.WriteLine("\rFinished\t\t\t\t\t");
Console.ReadLine();
}

For clearing completely the console window see:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=319257

Hope this helps
Martin Dechev
ASP.NET MVP
 
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