How to draw a circle in a Console.

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Hi,

How can I Draw a shape (Circle) in a Console window.

C#

Console.Write("Something"); //To write something

Console.???; //To Draw a circle

Posted 14-Feb-12 4:26am

Fardan

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BobJanova 14-Feb-12 10:27am

Console.Write("O");

;)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Feb-12 11:01am

Best answer so far... :-)
--SA

Fardan 14-Feb-12 11:02am

Not a good place for joking

fjdiewornncalwe 14-Feb-12 11:07am

+5 +5 +5 if I could. Thanks for the chuckle.

manognya kota 14-Feb-12 11:47am

ha ha:) good one though.

Simla Sneha 14-Feb-12 10:41am

I wrote this code on console application,but I got some error like invalid expression,need identifier etc.How can I solve this errors.Please help me..

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Feb-12 11:03am

What errors, for goodness sake? Help with what?!
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Feb-12 11:02am

Why on Earth?
--SA

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Solution 2

Others mentioned it - Console is not for drawing - But I was curiose what I could do: here is what I came up with.

C#

Console.WriteLine(@"    -     ");
Console.WriteLine(@"  /   \   ");
Console.WriteLine(@" |     |  ");
Console.WriteLine(@"  \   /   ");
Console.WriteLine(@"    -     ");

Sorry for kind of "fun" answer - but your question is for shure nothing mission critical.

Posted 14-Feb-12 5:46am

johannesnestler

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NeptuneHACK! 14-Feb-12 14:49pm

lol my 5

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-14T04:40:00

Solution 1

That is really not that easy: Console applications are not Graphics oriented - they are character based, and your outputs are limited to the characters you can print to the screen - there are no DrawLine or DrawElipse functions.

If you really, really want to do this,. then your best best is to google for "ASCII art circle" and see what you get. But do remember that the console is limited in how many lines it can display at one time, so your vertical resolution is never going to be much good.

I would recommend that you use a WinForms application instead.

Posted 14-Feb-12 4:40am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Feb-12 11:00am

Why WinForms? Or WPF... 5 anyway.
--SA

Fardan 14-Feb-12 11:02am

Somebody downvoted my question. Do you know why?

OriginalGriff 14-Feb-12 11:57am

Looking at the histogram, two people did. But no, I don't know who, or why.

Fardan 20-Feb-12 19:55pm

Ok. Thanks for answer.

manognya kota 14-Feb-12 11:47am

+5.