_setcursortype

Syntax

#include <conio.h> void _setcursortype(int _type);

Description

Sets the cursor type. _type is one of the following:

_NOCURSOR

No cursor is displayed.

_SOLIDCURSOR

A solid block is displayed.

_NORMALCURSOR

An underline cursor is displayed.

Portability

ANSI/ISO C	No
POSIX	No

Implementation Note

It's not safe to call this function inside static constructors, because conio needs to be initialized, and its initialization is done by a static constructor. Since you don't have any control on the order in which static constructors are called (it's entirely up to the linker), you could have problems.

If you can detect the situation when one of the conio functions is called for the very first time since program start, you could work around this problem by calling the gppconio_init function manually (this is the function called by a static constructor).