Is there any way by which I can clear the screen (terminal window)?
I used to use the "\u000c" escape sequence in BlueJ and it used to work fine but in JCreator, it displays a box.
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Clearing the screen
Is there any way by which I can clear the screen (terminal window)?
I used to use the "\u000c" escape sequence in BlueJ and it used to work fine but in JCreator, it displays a box.
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Re: Clearing the screen
In pure Java, no.
Re: Clearing the screen
If it is sufficient that my program works on Windows, is there any way ( and more specifically, exceuting it from JCreator) . I mean that my program need not run on all platforms, windows is sufficient.
Re: Clearing the screen
If you only want to give the appearance of a cleared screen, just print out a lot of new lines. The text will likely still be around, but you'll have to scroll very far up to see it. This is generally not recommended because it's slow and not fool proof.
Otherwise, I doubt you'll be able to since I believe JCreator uses a GUI textbox element to show the text output and there's no way to access this text box directly without hacking into JCreator (not recommended).
If your program being run from a terminal (command prompt, bash, xterm, etc.), the best way is to use either JNI or JNA to interface with native C++ code. See Clear the screen - OS Specific Ways for how to write the C++ code.
Last edited by helloworld922; March 18th, 2012 at 03:52 PM.
Re: Clearing the screen
As helloworld922 says, you cannot do this in pure java because java is OS independent and clearing the console is an OS function.
Whenever I wish to emulate the behavior I use this:
public void clearScreen() { for (int i = 0; i < 16; i++) System.out.println(); }
It is dirty and (as above) problematic but it gets the job done. A pure hack.
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