DOS Console and Mouse Events

[Ati2ude]

I am trying to send mouse events to a DOS Console to select the entire Presentation Space. However this is not working at all. Any pointers???

ptTop.x = Rect.TopLeft().x + 10;
ptTop.y = Rect.TopLeft().y + 10;
ptBottom.x = Rect.BottomRight().x - 10;
ptBottom.y = Rect.BottomRight().y - 10;


PostMessage(m_h_Wnd, WM_LBUTTONDOWN, 1, MAKELPARAM(ptTop.x,ptTop.y));
Sleep(0);

PostMessage(m_h_Wnd, WM_MOUSEMOVE, 1, MAKELPARAM(ptBottom.x,ptBottom.y));
Sleep(0);

PostMessage(m_h_Wnd, WM_LBUTTONUP, NULL, MAKELPARAM(ptBottom.x,ptBottom.y));
Sleep(0);

Thanks in advance,
Brian

 

[MKuiper]

Hi,

Have a look at the WriteConsoleInput API. Marcel

 

[Ati2ude]

To use this I will need a Handle to the console input buffer. However the DOS window I am looking at was not Allocated by me. Therefore I do not have access to the STD_INPUT_HANDLE,
STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE, or STD_ERROR_HANDLE. I am under the impression that these are only avaliable if you allocate the console. Is that correct??? Thanks in advance.

 

[MKuiper]

Ati2ude,

I think you're not correct. Maybe you think the STD_*_HANDLE are the handles you need. That's not correct, you can get the handles by calling GetStdHandle:
HANDLE hStdIn = GetStdHandle ( STD_INPUT_HANDLE );

Marcel

 

[Ati2ude]

Marcel,

According to MSDN, "If an application does not have associated standard handles, such as a service running on an interactive desktop, and has not redirected them, the return value is NULL." The handles are null if I try to obtain them using GetStdHandle. However, while researching this I noticed a function that I overlooked before, SetStdHandle. With this function I am able to define them with any handle I want and then use them. This allows me to do everything I need. Thanks for pushing me out of the box!!!