I'm a newbie,
To be honest I'm not sure if the serial monitor window is part of Atmel studio 7 or visual micro.

I have been using the serial monitor with serial prints to show the results of my program.
How can I print so that the next print overlays and replaces the last one?
 
To be clear I mean that there is a carriage return but no line feed.

I tried printing \r but the cursor didn't back up

bob

Hi VM,
Thanks for the reply.

It would be nice to have cursor movement escape codes.
I hope it happens one day.

Bob
PS I really like VM and I just upgraded to PRO

Hi VM,
Re suggestions.

Well, we are talking about two different things. my original post was not about ESC codes. It was about implementing '\r' as just a standard carriage return, as at the moment it does nothing. The \n (newline)and \t (tab) work as expected. I think the problem lies in the method you use to display the serial monitor screen image in that doesn't allow for backward movements.

Implementing \r would allow users to print repeated values on the same line without scrolling the display. As an example I might display the current time and temperature.

loop()
{
actualTime=getTime();
actualTemp=getTemp();

Serial.print("Time     ");
Serial.print(actualTime); 
Serial.print("\t"); 
Serial.print("Temp     ");       
Serial.print(actualTemp);
Serial.print("\r"); 
}                   
where actualTime and actualTemp are string variables.

While it is true that many external serial monitor programs can do the above, there is difficulty in sharing the COM port with the arduino uploader.

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Moving on to the additional subject of  escape codes.  I think these would be a minimal set. (taken from from Microsoft console virtual terminal sequences)

ESC A      Cursor Up by 1
ESC B      Cursor Down by 1
ESC C      Cursor Forward (Right) by 1
ESC D      Cursor Backward (Left) by 1

Bob