Windows Console Mouse operations
 

Hi all, i'm looking into doing a little bit of work with the mouse in console applications on windows. I'm using windows.h to get access to functions such as ReadConsoleInput. I've created a simple program that just prints a string whenever the left most mouse button is clicked. However sometimes it works fine sometimes it doesn't. By doesn't work it seems to be that when i run it if my curser is out side the console window then when i move my mouse into the console window it crashes. If it is inside to begin with then i seems to be ok....quite odd.

I was wondering if you could shed some light on where i have gone wrong thanks.

#include <iostream>

#include <windows.h>



using namespace std;



int main(void){

    

    HANDLE stin = GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE);

    DWORD NumRead;

    DWORD numEvents;

    

    while(1){

              GetNumberOfConsoleInputEvents(stin, &numEvents);

              INPUT_RECORD *inputStat = new INPUT_RECORD[numEvents];

              ReadConsoleInput(stin, inputStat, 1, &NumRead);

              if(NumRead != 0){

                 for(int i = 0; i < NumRead; i++){

                    if(inputStat[i].EventType==MOUSE_EVENT){

                       if (inputStat[i].Event.MouseEvent.dwButtonState & 0x0001){

                             std::cout << "Clicked\n";

                             }

                    }

                 }

                 delete inputStat;

              }

              

         }

    

    return 0;

}

Chris

Re: Windows Console Mouse operations
 

> ReadConsoleInput(stin, inputStat, 1, &NumRead);
How about
ReadConsoleInput(stin, inputStat, numEvents, &NumRead);

> delete inputStat;
How about
delete [ ] inputStat;

You should also check the console API calls for success/failure as well.

Re: Windows Console Mouse operations
 

How silly of me, Ye i was just tyrying to get it working before i set up failure checks, thanks for that. It was 2 silly mistakes. It's because i originally had it set up not using an array just to process one event and din't think to update those bits lol

Thanks,
Chris