Thread: Mouse

there's a couple ways to do it:

1) use GetCursorPos and check the difference between the current and last position and then move the "selection" in the console by that much

ie:

Code:

POINT lastPos;
GetCursorPos(&lastPos);

int dosPosX=0;
int dosPosY=0;

while(some condition)
{
	POINT cursorPos;
	GetCursorPos(&cursorPos);

	dosPosX+=(cursorPos.x-lastPos.y)/8;  // Move one position for every 8 pixels the mouse changed
	dosPosY+=(cursorPos.y-lastPos.y)/8;

// The code above might want to be changed, i just whipped this together right now and don't have time to test it (my battery is almost dead on my laptop :()
// but this should work somewhat decently, just if they move less than 8 pixels per test, it won't move at all, so it would
// be better to implement some sort of accumulator that would take the remainder and not throw it out

	lastPos=cursorPos;

2) another way is to research some Dos-development communities (if there really are any) and ask around for a better way to do this....

-hope that helps

If you search the web for "mouse input console" you should find several sites that have examples. Basically what you have is a function ReadConsoleInput. This function accepts a data structure called INPUT_RECORD which contains another data structure MOUSE_EVENT which tells you the state of you mouse. Right button clicked or x and y position. You create a handler routine to fetch the records one at atime just like in a normal windows application inspect each record if it is a mouse event then give it to a mouse handler if it is a keyboard event then you give it to the keyboard handler. I have a program I created in visual C++ that i was using to play aorund with the console maybe it can give you some ideas.