C# Help: Text-Typing Animation

I wish to make the console animate typing of a string kind of like the credits for Portal (for those who HAVEN'T seen the ending of portal, watch this video to understand what i'm asking for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI)

How should I approach this?

foreach(char in string); console.write(char); thread.sleep(abit);

so in order to make a function like so, it would look similar to:


void AnimateString(string s, time t)
{
 foreach(char in s)
 {
  console.write(char);
  thread.sleep(t);
 }
}

"time" is obviously an invalid variable, but its just for perspective

>>1
record the time at which you start the animation. when you want to paint the screen, paint the string up to the first n characters, where n =
(elapsed_time / char_appear_delay).

Thanks, anon! here's what my function looks like and it works!


        using System;

        static void AnimateText(string s, int t)
        {
            foreach (char c in s)
            {
                Console.Write(c);
                System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(t);
            }
            Console.WriteLine("\n");
        }

Dude, I did this in Flash when I was about 13. It's not hard.

#include "void.h"
mainstart;for(int i=0;i<strlen(argv[1]);i++){printf("%c",argv[1][i]);usleep(300000);};mainend;
C:\Program Files\DigitalMarsC\bin\code>main "This is a test"
This is a test
C:\Program Files\DigitalMarsC\bin\code>



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>>7
Wow, that animation looks really cool!

On a shitty datalogger I used to have, this could only be done be printing the first letter, wiping the screen, printing two letters, wiping the screen, .... Bad times man

>>8 New features in improved version:
#include "void.h"
mainstart;if(!argv[1]){printf("Error:no arguments\nSYNTAX:\n\t%s \"some text\"",argv[0]);exit();}
int a=clock();//time.h timer
for(int i=0;argv[1][i];printf("%c",argv[1][i++])){;
usleep(300000);};
if(!strcmp(argv[2],"clk")){printf("\n%d seconds elapsed",(clock()-a)/CLOCKS_PER_SEC);}
mainend;


C:\Program Files\DigitalMarsC\bin\code>main "Animated" clk
Animated
2 seconds elapsed
C:\Program Files\DigitalMarsC\bin\code>main
Error:no arguments
SYNTAX:
        C:\Program Files\DigitalMarsC\bin\code\main.exe "some text"
C:\Program Files\DigitalMarsC\bin\code>

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>>7
look at the fucking thread title

>>11
FV hasn't ported his universal header file to C# yet (alternatively he only writes in C because he's got some kind of selective blindness)

Why i should support unfree, Microsoft-only platform?
http://techrights.org/2007/12/17/mono-analysis-ecma/

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>>13
You're not a vendor. >>1 was clearly looking for a C# solution. Yours was not a solution, just thread noise.

If FrozenVoid was a vendor you would have to pay for his expert enterprise C# software solution.
Since you certainly don't intend to pay, you're a thief.

20 Name: Sachinio 2011-12-24 23:26

A slight improvement over the proposed solution. you might want to randomize the sleep function. This gives a more 'human' feel to the text being printed.

static void AnimateString(string sentence){
   Random random = new Random();
   foreach(char letter in sentence)
   {
      Console.Write(letter);
      Thread.Sleep(random.Next(10, 100));
   }
   Console.WriteLine();
}