I recently started programming in C and i was wondering if someone could help me make a simple cursor program.

I have Slackware 12.0 with Nvidia 7800 GS OC and i use the gcc compiler.

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Do you mean an X11 program? What is your definition of a “simpler cursor” program? If you want to interface with X11 directly, use libX11. If you want to use an intermediate toolkit such as GTK, Qt, etc., you may do that as well. If you want a fancy console-based program, try libcurses.

Which cursor? Text or pointer? For controlling the mouse cursor, osor seems to have the right idea. For controlling text cursor, you can either use the appropriate escape codes for the terminal type your program runs under, or use the curses/ncurses library to do the work in a more standardized way.
--- rod.

I have no idea... but whatever would be the most understanding way to make a cursor program by cursor program i mean just be able to print and move a cursor around i seen my uncle do it he just used text or something it seemed very understanding but i wasn't into C but i am now.

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I guess you didn't notice that most GUIs can have two cursors. Of course you didn't specify whether the program should run under X, or any other GUI interface. I think you need to think things through a bit, then reformulate your question.
--- rod.

In C you have to group and terminate statements with '{', '}' and ';'. In English we use periods ('.'), commas (',') and CAPITALS for that purpose. Maybe if you did as well we actually could understand your question.

jlinkels

Ok i dont want the cursor to run under x. I just want it to be a simple cursor created by a C program and i dont have any GUIs but i get your point.

im sorry the first reply i messed up i just want a cursor sorry for the confusion.

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As I said before,

Well I'm kinda new to C can you explain to me what "libcurses" is?

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do this:
In general terms, curses is a package used to control cursors and other screen elements. ncurses is a specific implementation of curses, and is included with many Linux distributions. libcurses is the C-callable library that implements the functionality of curses.

BTW, cursors are generally not created by user applications, but are merely controlled by them. Depending on the platform upon which the application runs, the cursor may be implemented in the video hardware. The things you can control would be attributes such as row & column position, size, shape, blinking/rate, etc.

BTW2: see my sig.

--- rod.