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Hello guys, just I want to if is possile to read from the console?
took several hours searching, and I find nothing  :shock: it's impossible?
My last hope is the forum where I know the wisest people in programming  :biggrin:

WinAPI: ReadFile,ReadConsole
CRT: scanf,...
MASM32: input$()-macro,StdIn,...
...

 :biggrin: thanks you qWord!  :bgrin:

Hi RHL,

Here is a Simple console piping example (http://www.masmforum.com/board/index.php?topic=18215.0)

Quote from: Vortex on June 11, 2012, 06:20:47 AM
Hi RHL,

Here is a Simple console piping example (http://www.masmforum.com/board/index.php?topic=18215.0)

thanks Vortex, yeah, in really I wanted read, but data are already written on the console, not from the start of a function :P thanks guys

Here is the old HangMan example (http://www.movsd.com/board/index.php?topic=17936.msg151118#msg151118), demonstrating how to use Locate(x,y) in console mode. Another simple example:

include \masm32\MasmBasic\MasmBasic.inc   ; download (http://masm32.com/board/index.php?topic=94.0)
   Init
   .Repeat
      Let esi=Input$("What's your name? ", "RHL")
      .Break .if word ptr [esi]!="HR"
      Print "I asked for your name, not your nick!", CrLf$
   .Until 0
   Inkey "Hi ", esi, ", how are you?"
   Exit
end start

Quote from: RHL on June 11, 2012, 07:45:41 AM

Quote from: Vortex on June 11, 2012, 06:20:47 AM
Hi RHL,

Here is a Simple console piping example (http://www.masmforum.com/board/index.php?topic=18215.0)

thanks Vortex, yeah, in really I wanted read, but data are already written on the console, not from the start of a function :P thanks guys

RHL,

You can read the console output buffer, but only for your console screen, not an arbitrary console screen. See the API for GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo.

Dave.

It basically boils down to
invoke GetStdHandle, STD_INPUT_HANDLE
...
invoke SetConsoleMode, eax, ENABLE_LINE_INPUT or ENABLE_ECHO_INPUT or ENABLE_PROCESSED_INPUT
...
invoke ReadFile, hInput, pBuffer, bLen, ADDR bRead, NULL