Win32 Console App- Mouse input

How would you do mouse input? And is there a way to get it to check "real time", so that you can be running other things while it does that, or is that extremely complex?

Thanks abunch!

Here's an example taken mainly from MSDN

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>

void MouseEventProc(MOUSE_EVENT_RECORD);
VOID ResizeEventProc(WINDOW_BUFFER_SIZE_RECORD);
VOID KeyEventProc(KEY_EVENT_RECORD);
VOID GetInputEvents(VOID);
void gotoxy(int, int);
 
void MyErrorExit(char *s)
{
        printf ("Fatal: %s\n", s);
        exit (1);
}

int main(void)
{
    HANDLE hStdin;
    DWORD cNumRead, fdwMode, fdwSaveOldMode, i;
    INPUT_RECORD irInBuf[128];
 
    // Get the standard input handle.
 
    hStdin = GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE);
    if (hStdin == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
        MyErrorExit("GetStdHandle");
 
    // Save the current input mode, to be restored on exit.
 
    if (! GetConsoleMode(hStdin, &fdwSaveOldMode) )
        MyErrorExit("GetConsoleMode");
 
    // Enable the window and mouse input events.
 
    fdwMode = ENABLE_WINDOW_INPUT | ENABLE_MOUSE_INPUT;
    if (! SetConsoleMode(hStdin, fdwMode) )
        MyErrorExit("SetConsoleMode");
 
    // Loop to read and handle the input events.
 
    while (1)
    {
 
        // Wait for the events.
 
        if (! ReadConsoleInput(
                hStdin,      // input buffer handle
                irInBuf,    // buffer to read into
                128,        // size of read buffer
                &cNumRead) ) // number of records read
            MyErrorExit("ReadConsoleInput");
 
        // Dispatch the events to the appropriate handler.
 
        for (i = 0; i < cNumRead; i++)
        {
            switch(irInBuf[i].EventType)
            {
                case KEY_EVENT: // keyboard input
                    KeyEventProc(irInBuf[i].Event.KeyEvent);
                    break;
 
                case MOUSE_EVENT: // mouse input
                    MouseEventProc(irInBuf[i].Event.MouseEvent);
                    break;
 
                case WINDOW_BUFFER_SIZE_EVENT: // scrn buf. resizing
                    ResizeEventProc(
                        irInBuf[i].Event.WindowBufferSizeEvent);
                    break;
 
                case FOCUS_EVENT:  // disregard focus events
 
                case MENU_EVENT:  // disregard menu events
                    break;
 
                default:
                    MyErrorExit("unknown event type");
                    break;
            }
        }
    }
 
    return 0;
}

VOID MouseEventProc(MOUSE_EVENT_RECORD ir)
{
    if (ir.dwEventFlags == MOUSE_MOVED)
                gotoxy (ir.dwMousePosition.X,ir.dwMousePosition.Y);
}

VOID ResizeEventProc(WINDOW_BUFFER_SIZE_RECORD dummy){return;};
VOID KeyEventProc(KEY_EVENT_RECORD dummy){return;};
VOID GetInputEvents(VOID){return;};

void gotoxy(int x, int y)
{
  COORD coord;
  coord.X = x;
  coord.Y = y;
  SetConsoleCursorPosition (GetStdHandle (STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), coord);
}

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Great! I'll mess around with that.

But how can I make it check constantly without making it slow down a lot?

Thats perfect though... the constant thing was so I could create my own "ctrl+c"