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Hi Please bear with me im still quite new to C# and have done some coding in Turbo Pascal. I am trying to write a tick tack toe also known as noughts and crosses game in a console application. I have two main issues the first been is i dont know how to get the right loop format so player 1 goes 5 times and player 2 only 4 times. My other issue is i dont know how to get it so wen a player enters a number the pointer will go to a certain point and write a O or a X similar to the goto function in turbo pascal. Your help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

mibuyt · Answer

Hi Solitaire Just curious... why can't you clear the screen? It will be complicated but it still can be done... Get the Console Buffer: GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo function Set the Console Buffer with empty spaces: FillConsoleOutputCharacter function Set the cursor position: SetConsoleCursorPosition function .. once you able to clear the screen you can just re-paint the console again... Cheers.

joy.simpson · Answer

There is no way you can relocate the cursor in a Console application so it will never work. You should be using a Windows form application instead. I wrote a tic-tac-toe program a couple of years ago using 9 labels. The new version of Visual Studio 2005 promises to have more features available for Console applications including the ability to clear the screen relocate the cursor and add color. The code would be quite different when using a Windows app vs. a Console app. In a Windows form you could simply alternate the Xs and Os when one of the labels is clicked. In a Console app. you would use a Do loop and a flag that alternates between player 1 and player 2 until a winner is declared. But placing the Xs and Os graphically is not possible.

abdullah · Answer

Hi..... this Game is implemented by many people by Java C# .....just search the net for tic tac toe by C# ....u will find many applications then u can see how these people implement it..... Good luck.....