Thread: BGI and text cursor

Hello, I'm new here. I need help on a DOS program I am working on, I am using the Borland C++ 3.1 compiler.

My problem is that I need to work with regular text and graphics at the same time. I have been able to do this with BGI, but what I need now is the cursor to be displayed while the user does input, for example (I mean the regular shell cursor, NOT the mouse cursor.)

I suppose the cursor won't show because of the BGI's screen mode, but I am hoping that BGI has a command (showcursor(), or whatever) that allows me to display the "text cursor". I've already tried with _setcursortype() and even ASM, but still no luck.

I'm clueless here, and I'm not an expert on C++, so any help related to the subject would be much appreciated. Thanks a lot.

Just print an underscore at the end of the string. That will work unless you require a blibking cursor...

Yeh, I thought of that but I do need the blinking cursor.
Or maybe some code that emulates "console text" under BGI. The ideal thing would be to find how to display the normal cursor.
Thanks

I don't use BGI, but in Win32, the text-cursor is called a "caret." All of the "cursor" functions are for the mouse-cursor.

So you might check your documentation for "caret".