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Mouse Input In C Programs - using checkbox etc

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Mouse Input In C Programs - using checkbox etc

klusk
Mar 5 2008, 11:59 AM
how can we use mouse input in C programs...i think that works only in graphics mode...
i tried a few functions that are available but they are not working...either i dont know how to use them properly or they dont work under my compiler...i use borlandv3.
do i have to download some file from internet which will make it work or i need to use a different compiler.....
and also i wish to know what all things i can do with it once it starts working,i mean checkbox or optionbox or making mouse focus specific areas.................
I know these things can be done better with other languages like VB ..but i need to work in C.

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CrashCore
Mar 6 2008, 12:20 AM
I'm not sure how much this helps, but I found a utility that can help with graphics implementation for C++. I am unsure how it works for C. I also haven't tested it or anything, but I guess it is worth a try.

http://www.genlogic.com/rel26.html

Also note that this does use Active-X (yuck!), which I guess saves you all the bother of reading the 25 X-Windows books to learn to make a simple pop-up...which I guess is a good thing.

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fffanatics
Mar 6 2008, 03:11 AM
The only was to get mouse input in C programs is to include either the windows.h header file or the x-window headers. The reason is that C is a console language and does not do anything with graphics since a console is keyboard based. However, if you add a graphics header to make the program into a graphical one, you will be able to get mouse input. Look into using winmain on windows. You will see there is msgproc which has a bunch of mouse messages and this is where you will handle mouse input.

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klusk
Mar 6 2008, 02:53 PM
QUOTE(fffanatics @ Mar 6 2008, 08:41 AM) *
The only was to get mouse input in C programs is to include either the windows.h header file or the x-window headers. The reason is that C is a console language and does not do anything with graphics since a console is keyboard based. However, if you add a graphics header to make the program into a graphical one, you will be able to get mouse input. Look into using winmain on windows. You will see there is msgproc which has a bunch of mouse messages and this is where you will handle mouse input.


thanx...winmain will do the work i wanted, just a part of C project at school..thought of adding something new...
i'll have to learn using winmain now.....
just thinking of trying windows.h and x- window headers but they are not present in my include directory...
i havent started using winmain...so if there is some connection between the two ....forgive me for asking this...but i just thought they are different

 

 

 


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osknockout
Mar 25 2008, 03:11 AM
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The only was to get mouse input in C programs is to include either the windows.h header file or the x-window headers.
That's not true at all.

The gpm library (http://linux.schottelius.org/gpm/) provides a mouse server without any x11 stuffs. I don't know how well it can be natively ported to windows (or if one already exists) but it should be able to be cygwin'd.

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howardh
Mar 30 2008, 07:22 PM
adrianxw's website shows you how to use mouse input with the console (Working with Windows Consoles, Part 5) plus a few other interesting tutorials for win32 console apps.

http://www.adrianxw.dk/SoftwareSite/index.html

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