[SOLVED] change carret's shape on windows terminal

change carret's shape on windows terminal

I want to set the text cursor (caret) of my console app from BLOCK (the default) to _ or |.

I Remove blinking underscore on console / cmd prompt - but it does not mention how to modify the cursor. Documentation on https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/setconsolecursorinfo?redirectedfrom=MSDN is not directly trivial to me.

Solution

As recommended by Raymond Chen (for those who don't know who he is: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/)

This is what I used for block cursor:

        HANDLE out = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);

        CONSOLE_CURSOR_INFO cursorInfo;

        GetConsoleCursorInfo(out, &cursorInfo);
        cursorInfo.bVisible = true;
        cursorInfo.dwSize = 100;
        SetConsoleCursorInfo(out, &cursorInfo);

And for underscore cursor:

        HANDLE out = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);

        CONSOLE_CURSOR_INFO cursorInfo;

        GetConsoleCursorInfo(out, &cursorInfo);
        cursorInfo.bVisible = true;
        cursorInfo.dwSize = 10;
        SetConsoleCursorInfo(out, &cursorInfo);