Miscellany

#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;
//using namespace System;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    const int width = 80,       // width of the console
              height = 25;      // height of the console
    int randomWidth = 0,        // used to store a random width
        randomHeight = 0;       // used to store a random height
    char Display[width][height];// used to store a representation of the console

    COORD charPosition;         // used to store information on the location of interest
    HANDLE hOut;                // our handle to the console screen buffer
    DWORD cWritten;
    srand((unsigned)time(0));   // seed the pseudo random number generator with the current time

    hOut = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
    SetConsoleTitle( TEXT("Hurrah") );

    randomWidth = (rand()%width)+1;
    randomHeight = (rand()%height)+1;
    charPosition.X = randomWidth;
    charPosition.Y = randomHeight;

    //initialze our console representatoin
    for (int i = 0; i < width; i++)
        for (int j = 0; j < height; j++)
            Display[i][j] = '';


    if (Display[randomWidth][randomHeight] != 'O') {
        Display[randomWidth][randomHeight] = 'O';
        WriteConsoleOutputCharacter(
        hOut,                 // screen buffer handle
        TEXT("O"),            // pointer to source string
        lstrlen(TEXT("O")),   // length of string
        charPosition,         // first cell to write to
        &cWritten);           // actual number written
}

    cin.get();

    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}