Setting the Cursor Position in a Win32 Console Application

Question

How can I set the cursor position in a Win32 Console application? Preferably, I would like to avoid making a handle and using the Windows Console Functions. (I spent all m

Answer 1

Using the console functions, you'd use SetConsoleCursorPosition. Without them (or at least not using them directly), you could use something like gotoxy in the ncurses library.

Edit: a wrapper for it is pretty trivial:

// Untested, but simple enough it should at least be close to reality...
void gotoxy(int x, int y) { 
    COORD pos = {x, y};
    HANDLE output = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
    SetConsoleCursorPosition(output, pos);
}