How do I get the current position of the cursor in terminal with NCurses using C++? I searched around a bit and saw “getxy(int x, int y)”. I tried that and got the error “‘getxy’ was not declared in this scope”.
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How do I get the current position of the cursor in terminal with NCurses using C++? I searched around a bit and saw “getxy(int x, int y)”. I tried that and got the error “‘getxy’ was not declared in this scope”.
You might have forgotten some
#include <ncurses.h>and the macro is spelled getyxDon’t forget to compile with
g++ -Wall -gand to link with-lncurses