Need some C help

[Damascus]

Does anyone know of a good online reference for conio.h? (specific urls please)
I'm having a difficult time finding anything that I can use. If only someone would
port curses to Win32...

 

[singh]

What specifically are you looking for?

 

[Damascus]

I'm looking for any type of 'complete' reference but specifically I was just wondering
if conio.h provided nice things like windows and color like curses does. TiA

 

[singh]

You don't need Conio.h at all. Rather, use the Win32 Console API functions.


Accoring to the MSDN Library, the following functions are available strictly for Console programming:
AllocConsole
CreateConsoleScreenBuffer
FillConsoleOutputAttribute
FillConsoleOutputCharacter
FlushConsoleInputBuffer
FreeConsole
GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent
GetConsoleCP
GetConsoleCursorInfo
GetConsoleMode
GetConsoleOutputCP
GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo
GetConsoleTitle
GetLargestConsoleWindowSize
GetNumberOfConsoleInputEvents
GetNumberOfConsoleMouseButtons
GetStdHandle
HandlerRoutine
PeekConsoleInput
ReadConsole
ReadConsoleInput
ReadConsoleOutput
ReadConsoleOutputAttribute
ReadConsoleOutputCharacter
ScrollConsoleScreenBuffer
SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer
SetConsoleCP
SetConsoleCtrlHandler
SetConsoleCursorInfo
SetConsoleCursorPosition
SetConsoleMode
SetConsoleOutputCP
SetConsoleScreenBufferSize
SetConsoleTextAttribute
SetConsoleTitle
SetConsoleWindowInfo
SetStdHandle
WriteConsole
WriteConsoleInput
WriteConsoleOutput
WriteConsoleOutputAttribute
WriteConsoleOutputCharacter


Use Google to search for examples. There is also a sample program given in the MSDN Library - Console.c showing usage of some of the functions.

 

[Damascus]

Originally posted by: singh
You don't need Conio.h at all. Rather, use the Win32 Console API functions.

Unfortunately I do not have a choice in this. It's for a class I'm taking at the moment and the
prof calls for using the Borland conio.h (not the VC++ one) so MSDN is out.

 

[Damascus]

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