Problem with text cursor in C

[sureshkumarct]

Hi all,
sorry to trouble u all again,but its very urgent ..I had posted a question in this forum about setting the text cursor in a C program. I need to handle mouse in my C program and I am able to capture mouse and left click but I want to set the text cursor on the position I left-click on the screen so that I can read some values at that location by scanf().I am sending the program as attachment...please go thru it and advice me..The gotoxy() function to position the text cursor does not work at all...The message is getting printed where the mouse is clicked but is getting printed at position(0,0) of the screen. Earlier I was asked to use gotoxy() function as solution to this problem but it is not workig at all.I tried my best to solve it myself and I searched all over the Net but was not successful.. it is a student project and I have to submit it soon....thanks in advance

[swoopy]

> setcursor(MouseX,MouseY);
> clrscr();
> gotoxy(MouseX,MouseY);
Shouldn't this be:

			setcursor(mx, my);
			clrscr();
			gotoxy(mx, my);

[dwks]

It could be, but the global variables used (MouseX and MouseY) are set to that value too.

int mouseposition(int *x,int *y)
{
	int butt;
	i.x.ax=0x3;
	int86(0x33,&i,&o);
	butt=o.x.bx;
	*x=o.x.cx;
	*y=o.x.dx;
	MouseX=*x;
	MouseY=*y;
	return butt;
}

I don't see why you're doing this.

 	mousept=startmouse();
	mousept=viewmouse();

The value from the first call is simply overwritten by the second call, and you don't use the variable after that anyway.

Print the values of the parameters that you pass to gotoxy(). Make sure they aren't just both zero.

it is a student project and I have to submit it soon

Why is your teacher using such old code? That is using DOS interrupts etc.

[swoopy]

>It could be, but the global variables used (MouseX and MouseY) are set to that value too.
Good point. I completely missed that.