How can we change the cursor to a null cursor in VC++ win32 console applications??
Also is there any way to copy the text on the console in a string!!
Thankx in advance...
How can we change the cursor to a null cursor in VC++ win32 console applications??
Also is there any way to copy the text on the console in a string!!
Thankx in advance...
>>> change the cursor to a null cursor in VC++ win32 console applications
Use the SetConsoleCursorInfo() API function, look it up in the help.
>>> way to copy the text on the console in a string
Since you put all the text there, surely you already have access to this?
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Ok thanks for part 1
However I require to read all the text on the console so that even after the screen in cleared i can restore it again. Something like:
char Screen[4096];//global variable
GetScreen(Screen);
system("cls");
cout<<Screen;
Thanks in advance
I'm not sure you can do this, I've never tried, but I don't recall any API function for getting the console buffer's contents, GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo() will give you the current screen buffer settings.
Again, I would suggest that as you've written the stuff, you already know what was there. Create a dummy buffer and write everything into this buffer at the same time you write to the console, you can then redraw it if necessary, (kind of like a memory DC and a BitBlt() function). I can't think why you would want to do this.
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