C++ NCurses how to get current cursor position?

c++ linux ncurses cursor-position
Predictability picture Predictability · Dec 3, 2012 · Viewed 12.1k times · Source

How do I get the current position of the cursor in terminal with NCurses using C++? I searched around a bit and saw "getxy(int x, int y)". I tried that and got the error "'getxy' was not declared in this scope".

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Basile Starynkevitch picture Basile Starynkevitch · Dec 3, 2012

You might have forgotten some #include <ncurses.h> and the macro is spelled getyx

Don't forget to compile with g++ -Wall -g and to link with -lncurses

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