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[Slanter]

In the following script, I'm trying to use "SetConsoleCursorPosition" (Wrapped in MoveCursor()) to move the cursor around. The problem is, instead of setting the cursor to the correct coordinates, it always moves to 0,0 (Top left corner).

[Lexikos]

There are two problems.

1. Edit: The following was caused by SciTE redirecting StdOut:
   GetStdHandle(-11) does not return a handle to a console output buffer. This is why SetConsoleCursorPosition sets A_LastError to ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE=6. Use the following instead:
   

   Code:

   hOutput := DllCall("CreateFile" ,"str","CONOUT$" ,"uint",0xC0000000 ,"uint",2 ,"uint",0 ,"uint",3 ,"uint",0 ,"uint",0)

   
   
2. SetConsoleCursorPosition expects a COORD structure. What you have is almost correct, but for the "UInt" type DllCall expects a string of numeric characters representing an unsigned integer, not a binary number. Also, X and Y are around the wrong way. Use one of the following instead:
   

   Code:

   VarSetCapacity(Coord, 4, 0)    NumPut(X, Coord, 0, "Short")    NumPut(Y, Coord, 2, "Short")    If (!DllCall("SetConsoleCursorPosition", UInt, hOutput, UInt, NumGet(Coord))) ; OR    If (!DllCall("SetConsoleCursorPosition", UInt, hOutput, UInt, X | Y<<16))

[Slanter]

Great! Thanks! About the X and Y being switched, I think I did that to check if anything would happen (not really sure why I did that anymore tbh), then forgot to switch it back .
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