Making output (e.g. "Hello World") center display.

[Silversonic]

I'm looking to develop a C++ Program that removes what's currently on my PiTFT display and places the output (cout) at the centre of the screen.

For instance, a simple "Hello World" program called main which, when I type ./main in to the command line, removes all previous command line data and simply has "Hello World" at the centre. At the very least I can just shove the right amount of cout << "\n" but that seems a bit brute-forced.

Is there a cleaner method for this? What would be a good utility? Currently my output already centers itself horizontally, it just needs to clear out the display and center vertically. The data I want on the front screen will also be changing with time (e.g. I may want "Today is the 1st of March" on the center, then when the day changes it would change to "Today is the 2nd of March").

[AndyD]

Have a look at ncurses. You will can install the library from the repository.

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

[Silversonic]

Good package. Thanks.