Thread: Mouse Input

Hi,
I am trying to make a game where your unit will move to where your mouse is on the screen. I read the MSDN page about console mouse input and I have this code so far:

Code:

ENABLE_MOUSE_INPUT;
INPUT_RECORD MOUSE_EVENT_RECORD;
COORD dwWritePosition;

What I wanted to know was, isnt the COORD statement supposed to record the coordinates of the mouse, and if it does how do you retrieve the coordinates?
Thanks

just pass an INPUT_RECORD variable into the ReadConsoleInput() function - if the EventType == KEY_EVENT, the mouse position will be in the INPUT_RECORD::Event.MouseEvent.dwMousePosition COORD.

err...umm....could i get a quick example?

The coordinates are stored in the INPUT_RECORD structure.

Code:

 
INPUT_RECORD myinput_record;
DWORD num;
 
ReadConsoleInput(hStdin,&myinput_record,1,&num);
 
myinput_record.Event.MouseEvent.dwMousePosition.X
myinput_record.Event.MouseEvent.dwMousePosition.Y

Here is a short example

Code:

#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
 
int main(void)
{
HANDLE hStdin,hStdout;
hStdin=GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE);
hStdout=GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
DWORD num;
INPUT_RECORD inputrecord;
COORD location;
 
location.X=0;
location.Y=0;
 
while(1)
{
 
  ReadConsoleInput(hStdin,&inputrecord,1,&num);
 
	switch(inputrecord.EventType)
	{
	case MOUSE_EVENT: 
 
	  SetConsoleCursorPosition(hStdout,location);
	  cout<<"mouse_position ";
	  cout<<inputrecord.Event.MouseEvent.dwMousePosition.X;
	  cout<<" "<<inputrecord.Event.MouseEvent.dwMousePosition.Y<<"		   \n";
 
	  break;
	}
}
 
return 0;
}

Thanks a buttload man!!!