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Re: Hide Cursor in Console Window

• Posted by euphoric (admin) Jul 09, 2009
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It works for me as well. However, removing the extraneous puts() and whiles and wait_keys() causes it not to work.

For instance, this works (code goes right after and replaces all subsequent code after the procedure definition in your code):

puts(1,"a") -- a write to the screen is apparently required in order to set the cursor mode 
ShowConsoleCursor(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE),0)  
while get_key()=-1 do end while 

But without the prior puts(), it does not work on subsequent writes to the screen. For example, this shows the cursor:

-- no write to the screen prior to the following call means 
ShowConsoleCursor(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE),0)  
puts(1,"a") -- the cursor continues to flash hereafter 
while get_key()=-1 do end while