2 ?'s With Win32 Console Program

Take a look at the Win32 console API[1]

[1]http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/conchar_3vg3.asp

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I have a nice library, msoftcon. I''m not sure if it is free or not, it might be... Basically they took existing Win32 functions and made some nice easy to use ones. The color function does this:

SetConsoleTextAttribute( hConsole,
(WORD)((background << 4) | foreground) );

where background and foreground are ints, and hConsole is:

HANDLE hConsole;
hConsole = CreateFile("CONOUT$", GENERIC_WRITE | GENERIC_READ,
FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE,
0L, OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, 0L);

That could help you if you haven''t figured it out yet:

COORD cursor_pos;
//... give cursor_pos some values ...
SetConsoleCursorPosition(hConsole, cursor_pos);

So yeah...

About that percentage bar:
I would write a class PERCENTAGE_BAR, say, that held currentPercentage, and had display functions to do the graphics, and updatePercentage(float newPercent) to update it, or whatever. In the list of files you install, you could make a call to updatePercentage based on what file it was being installed... just a quick idea... hope it helps!

Neff

Great.. Thanks for the Tips.. Found the basic commands.. But i''m still looking for one to get current cursor position.. hmm i''ll keep looking thoguh..

Hmm small help, i got most of the Basic console function.. but i can''t find anything that will GET the Current Cursor Position.. I have Text, Write to a X Y Position,, but no Get Current Position.. is that anything i can use or a function i can write to get that information??

Thanks

Have a look at GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo().

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Original post by Martee
Have a look at GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo().

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thanks man, but i found something a lot easier..
luckly DevC++ is sweet enough to include the sourse for their library functions for conio.h.. and the wherey() and wherex() are just what i needed.. =) and a lot easier..





[edited by - Tonic151 on July 20, 2002 8:31:38 PM]