Thread: Reading from the console, I get errors and need help

I'm trying to read from the console because I writing a chess game for the console and I need to figuare out what piece is beign moved, so I need to read from it, but I keep on getting errors when I try this code...

Code:

char name[1];
     char Kn[2];
     DWORD Read;
     int x; // original X co-ordinate of the piece being moved.
     int y; // original Y co-ordinate of the piece being moved.
     int a;
     int b;
     
     if(turn == 1)
     {
     turn++; // Sorting out turning system
     }
     else if(turn == 2)
     {
     turn--;
     }
     
     make_move[1] = (int)x; // Finding out what piece has been moved
     make_move[2] = y;
     a = (7*(x - 65)) + 10;
     Position.X = a;
     b = 5*y;
     Position.Y = b;

ReadConsoleOutputCharacter(hOut,
                               &name,
                               1,
                               Position,
                               Read);

Thanks in advance...

Post your errors

sorry,

Code:

Consolechess.cpp:713: error: cannot convert `char (*)[1]' to `CHAR*' for 
   argument `2' to `BOOL ReadConsoleOutputCharacterA(void*, CHAR*, long 
   unsigned int, _COORD, DWORD*)'

make.exe: *** [Consolechess.o] Error 1

i think the main difference is that all c++ keywords are in lower-case.

Originally Posted by RoD

char is a C++ type and CHAR is a Microsoftism. The idea is that the same code will work under both Unicode and, let's say, ASCII. The only change that would need to be made is defining a macro to say you're using Unicode, and the implementation will supposedly do the right thing:

Code:

#ifdef UNICODE
  typedef wchar_t CHAR;
#else
  typedef char CHAR;
#endif

You're thinking of TCHAR, CHAR is always char.

Originally Posted by MSDN Windows Data Types

CHAR 8-bit Windows (ANSI) character.

The C built-in data types are simply typedefed to uppercase for consistency with the WinApi style of all uppercase variable type names.

Code:

HANDLE hFile;
UINT   cWidgets;
PVOID  pVoid;
INT    nIndex;   /* INT available for consistency. */
TCHAR  szFileName[MAX_PATH];
DWORD  dwWritten;