Keyboard / Mouse input in C++

Question

I\'m wondering how to accept keyboard and mouse input in C++, using Visual Studio 2010, for Windows 7 32-bit.

--EDIT: I forgot to mention that I need keyboard / mouse i

Answer 1

If you're writing a console application, you can use scanf or cin to get keyboard input. Console applications don't have any support for the mouse.

If you're writing a GUI application, you'll build the app out of standard windows controls that have built-in behaviors for mouse and keyboard input. You can use these re-usable controls as is, or you can augment them to make them behave exactly how you want for your application.

For example, in a GUI application, there's a standard edit control you can use that the user can type into. Your program receives messages when the user enters text into it, and based on those messages, or on other events, you can retrieve the text and do things with it as required by your program.