Yeah... for those of you (and I know there is a lot of you) who want to be able to use color, position the cursor, or get user input without displaying what the user typed (or overwrite it with '*' like a password), and are using Windows (for now), I made this file. You can get it from the coding download section of my site at home.comcast.net/~silverphyre673/index.html Please let me know what you think. You can use it for anything you like, and, as the tutorial says, it is only version 0.5 (write and read functions need a bit of work). Please read the tutorial before asking questions, but ANY improvements will be really welcome. Thanks for trying it out - let me know what you think! Hey Drew! :D Yay Composer. Quick fix. Anyways, I've been overloading the read/write function, but left SetWrite and MoveWrite templated so they now just call Write on whatever is passed to them, which I think should work. So... question: If Read() takes a char* that is supposed to be read into (it doesn't return the read value, it puts it into readObj), do I just use Read(char* buffer) or Read(char* &buffer) <-- Seems ugly to me! Thanks, guys! [Edited by - silverphyre673 on March 14, 2005 11:07:26 PM]

Accident. I thought it didn't post, and my browser started freezing, so I closed it, then accidentaly posted on the other forum. yeah. But please try it out.

So you think I should just overload the Write function for char*, char and std::string, or what?

Actually, and I guess I should update the readme about this, but I could use some help with the Read functions...

In case you didn't see (I modified the original post, so you might have missed it)

Hey Drew! :D Yay Composer. Quick fix. Anyways, I've been overloading the read/write function, but left SetWrite and MoveWrite templated so they now just call Write on whatever is passed to them, which I think should work. So... question: If Read() takes a char* that is supposed to be read into (it doesn't return the read value, it puts it into readObj), do I just use

Read(char* buffer)

or

Read(char* &buffer) <-- Seems ugly to me!

Thanks, guys!

Also, the Read(std::string, unsigned length) function is being crappy and appends random characters to the end of my strings. Could someone show me why, maybe? Thanks!

Quote:
Also, I do not believe that ReadConsole() will add the null terminator to your string. You should use the return value to put the null terminator into your buffer.

How would this look? Here is the function now:

bool Console::Read( char * readObj, unsigned length ){    DWORD read=0;    if ( !ReadConsole(input_handle, readObj, length, &read, NULL) )        return false;    readObj[strlen(readObj)+1]='\0';    return true;}

But this doesn't seem to work.