How to make a smoother terminal animation in c++

[raven lance]

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[silver crest]

if your terminal supports ANSI escape codes, you could speed up rendering by only printing characters that change between frames

this should also avoid the flickering

[turbid haven]

I wonder if something like FTXUI could help here

[silver crest]

e.g. cpp std::print("\x1B[{};{}H{}", 5, 16, '#'); prints # on row 5 in column 16

[silver crest]

maybe

[turbid haven]

I know it has really smooth animations in it

[silver crest]

i wonder if ftxui does exactly what i explained here

or if it does something even smarter

[ripe raven]

You could try not clearing the screen, and only moving the cursor to the top-left corner. And then printing on top of whatever is already there

[silver crest]

good idea, that might be enough

[hollow jay]

So I was messing around today when I had time, and I tried the method where I move the the home position, put it didn't really work.

[ripe raven]

Wdym by didn't work?

[hollow jay]

sorry, im trying to get the win snippet tool work properly

so no overwrite happen at all. I don't know why

[ripe raven]

[hollow jay]

bc i tried in a smaller program

and there it worked

[hollow jay]

Okey I got it. There was a problem with the order of instructions. I'm very stupid.

[raven lance]

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