How can I set the cursor position in a Win32 Console application? Preferably, I would like to avoid making a handle and using the Windows Console Functions. (I spent all morning running down that dark alley; it creates more problems than it solves.) I seem to recall doing this relatively simply when I was in college using stdio, but I can't find any examples of how to do it now. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Additional Details
Here is what I am now trying to do:
COORD pos = {x, y};
HANDLE hConsole_c = CreateConsoleScreenBuffer( GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE, 0, NULL, CONSOLE_TEXTMODE_BUFFER, NULL );
char * str = "Some Text\r\n";
DWDORD len = strlen(str);
SetConsoleCursorPosition(hConsole_c, pos);
WriteConsole(hConsole_c, str, len, &dwBytesWritten, NULL);
CloseHandle(hConsole_c)
The text string str
is never sent to the screen. Is there something else that I should be doing? Thanks.
Using the console functions, you'd use SetConsoleCursorPosition
. Without them (or at least not using them directly), you could use something like gotoxy
in the ncurses library.
Edit: a wrapper for it is pretty trivial:
// Untested, but simple enough it should at least be close to reality...
void gotoxy(int x, int y) {
COORD pos = {x, y};
HANDLE output = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
SetConsoleCursorPosition(output, pos);
}