How to add animation to a program or code?

[mkannah]

Hi, i've been wondering how some program using codes is animated?

[weaknessforcats]

The same way they do it in the movies: Display an image over and over on top of itself.

[mkannah]

Image? You mean characters? Like '*' ? Thanks.

[weaknessforcats]

You can use characters if you want, like *. For example:

These strings are displayed on top of each other with a 1/2 pause between display. The effect is to see the * travel across the screen:

#include <windows.h>

ostream&  pause(ostream& os)
{
	 Sleep(500);
	 return os;
}

int main()
{
	char* str1 = "*     ";
	char* str2 = " *    ";
	char* str3 = "  *   ";
	char* str4 = "   *  ";
	char* str5 = "    * ";

	cout << str1 <<pause << "\r"
	          << str2 <<pause << "\r"
			  << str3<<pause << "\r"
			  << str4 <<pause << "\r"
			  << str5 <<pause << endl;

}