Prevent new line when outputting to console

Question

I've set the buffer size to the window size to get rid of the scroll bar. Now, I'm trying to fill the console with a value, but there is always a new blank line added to the end, which causes the first line to be cleared from the buffer.

I know why it's happening, but is there any way that I can prevent it?

I've tried moving the buffer area, but as I said, the first line of the buffer is cleared when the blank line is added, so that just creates a blank line at the top.

Answer 1

The .NET console just streams into the buffer, which is probably not what you want. You'll need to P/Invoke into the Windows API to have full control over the console.

In particular, check out WriteConsoleOutput. It allows you to treat the console as a grid of "pixels", and write to a specific block of them.