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Started by santonel Feb 16, 2003 at 10:03 PM 5 replies 250+ views

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Feb 16, 2003 at 10:03 PM

Ok I am an experience C programmer and I am in a Grade 12 C++ (i am in grade 11). So far it is all review for me. However my school was stupid enough to get Visual C++ 6 for writing DOS applications. Anyone who makes a console application with VC++ 6 knows that most of the dos functions are gone. So that means no gotoxy() or textcolor() or anything fun whatsoever. So i took it upon my self to write my own. So i tried to accomplish the effects by calling bios interrupts. Problem : no int86() function! gah! So i tried calling the interrupt with straight assembly language. the result : a blue screen. So anyone know how I can write a function to position the cursor or change the text color background in a win32 console app. Or at least how to make a bios interrupt call?

Lunatic Raven

Feb 16, 2003 at 10:05 PM

Look it up in the MSDN, it''s all there.

Martee

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Martee

Feb 16, 2003 at 10:08 PM

You can''t directly call BIOS interrupts like that from a Win32 application, so you''ll have to use the Win32 API. Look on MSDN for SetConsoleCursorPosition() and SetConsoleTextAttribute().

santonel

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santonel

Feb 16, 2003 at 10:53 PM

you can make win32 api calls in a console app?

Miserable

Feb 16, 2003 at 11:05 PM

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Original post by santonel
you can make win32 api calls in a console app?

In a Win32 console application, yes, and this is what VC++ 6.0 will produce.

Keep in mind that those "DOS functions" are non-standard (AFAIK, there is no standard way of handling such things - which makes sense, because not all architectures may support them, let alone in a consistent manner). You may be used to Borland''s programming environment (I was, once), but (again, AFAIK) those are vendor-specific extensions.

daerid

Feb 17, 2003 at 1:33 AM

You could try looking in conio.h

santonel

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santonel

Feb 17, 2003 at 5:57 AM

ok thanx for the help.

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