I am using C language. I want to display a table. I know how to display a normal table using printf. However I have many records (more than several thousand), and I want to keep two things on screen all the time and have the middle portion of record keeps updating...
Suppose here is a table:
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No.| Name | Some Data | Comments
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001 xyz 234 abc
002 uvw 5862 abc
003 lmn 8993 abc
004
005
006
007
...
...
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Some result analysis goes here:
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Now lets assume there are thousand of entries in this table, and in less than a second this table is updating, eventually what will happen? I will loose the header and footer of table like: No, Name , Some data and comments, and in footer result analysis..
What I want is to keep updating the entries but have the header and footer of the table remain. How can I implement this! Any idea?
Are you using a Unix/Linux system? If yes, probably you have ncurses library (man 3). It is a library to manipulate character interface.
You are able to create 'windows' (screen sections) and update only this parts (to remain the header and footer).