macOS Simple Question? Clear Screen?

[Fender2112]

I'm using Xcode to learn C++. So far things are simple and output goes to a command window. What is the command that clears the old junk from this command window?

 

[gekko513]

clear .... edit: eh ... I was thinking Terminal

 

[bousozoku]

I haven't tried it but you might try an ASCII form feed character, as that used to clear ANSI x.364 terminals.

 

[jaykk]

Try this

I think this is what you are looking for - choose Debug -> Clear Logs

Edit : Also, if this is what you are looking for, you can set a preference ( General -> Automatically clear logs). It will clear the command window each time you run the program.

 

[gekko513]

If you want to clear it manually, there's a small grey X below the vertical scroll bar.

 

[Fender2112]

Using google here's what I think I need.

I need clscr() which in found in #include <conio.h> But this file does not exit in Xcode's version of c++

There is also this command: system ("cls"); but this doesn't work on OS X.

I also found this: clear. But I'm not sure of the syntax.

 

[SamMiller0]

Clearing the output in a terminal windows is platform dependent. Look at the using the ncurses library for your project.

 

[HiRez]

Using curses ithrough Python it's

myWindow.clear()

where myWindow is a curses window. You could make a window the size of the screen or

screen.clear()

might also work directly, I'm not sure. Screen is automatically defined when you use curses.

 

[gekko513]

Using google here's what I think I need.

I need clscr() which in found in #include <conio.h> But this file does not exit in Xcode's version of c++

There is also this command: system ("cls"); but this doesn't work on OS X.

I also found this: clear. But I'm not sure of the syntax.

Well, clear is the terminal command, so system("clear"); could work.

 

[iMeowbot]

Just for playing around and learning, you can use the string "\e[H\e[2J" to clear a VT100-style terminal. You're really supposed to use ncurses for that kind of thing, but that's more evil than you probably want to deal with at the start.