There is an exe in system32 called edit.com . It is an old text editor. I’m wondering how they made a console app have a gui, and work with the mouse? Thanks
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There is an exe in system32 called edit.com . It is an old text editor. I’m wondering how they made a console app have a gui, and work with the mouse? Thanks
There are no shortcuts.
The mouse had to be interfaced with through assembly code.
You would call interrupt 33 to have access to several functions like reading the mouse motion counters and button states. Then you’d read the CPU registers to get those numbers. From there on you could do everything else in C, including the GUI-like interface. There’s no shortcut to that either – it must be manually done, each individual square has to be painted the correct color.