Text Mode Cursor: Difference between revisions

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===Get Cursor Data===

With this code, you get: <tt>pos = y * VGA_WIDTH + x</tt>. To obtain the coordinates, just calculate: <tt>y = pos/VGA_WIDTH; x = pos%VGA_WIDTH</tt>.

'''Source in C'''

<source lang="c">

uint16_t get_cursor_position(void)

{

uint16_t pos = 0;

outb(0x3D4, 0x0F);

pos |= inb(0x3D5);

outb(0x3D4, 0x0E);

pos |= ((uint16_t)inb(0x3D5)) << 8;

return pos;

}