Hey all, im writing a libary for console input/output functions (mostly just for practice & fun), and I don't know how to get the hardware cursor position.
So far i've got text color and text output down (using far pointers) but it always starts at 0,0 and I need the cursor position to find out where to start outputting text.
Please no samples from libc or anything like that, i need something in ASM... (using djgpp..)
Get Ralf Brown's interrupt list. You have to make a BIOS call or use port I/O to get the current position of the hardware cursor. It is available via interrupt 10, but I do not remember all of the specific register values or even which ones do what. I downloaded the port I/O map for the video card from........I think it was The Programmer's Lair - the URL is very diff from the name so look it up on a search engine.
Ok I found the list, from what it says is that I should set AH to 3 and call an interrupt, and DH and DL will have the row & column. Im checking if this works right now...
works perfectly.
