how use a mouse in win32 console application

Mouse is used in console for mark/copy/paste. It actually can be used in a console application (you can set and retrieve its position), but not effectively communicate with console. Just a wrong idea.
—SA

Mark/Copy/Paste is a console window feature, not a console one :) I remember using mouse emulation in QBasic some time ago, it was clunky to say the least, for the trouble I'd just do MFC. Since the console became more like a command window than an actual console, I'm not sure where to even begin anymore capturing the mouse...

Yes, of course, this is what I tried to say: this is not what can be used by an application.

However, using a mouse in a console application is possible. Look at FAR Manager; I suspect it does something like that. You can set a local Windows Hook or find a consoles HWND through a current process and inject handling it it. This is not even too difficult. And console has API for absolute addressing (character, its position and background/foreground color).

I don't think messing with it has any practical sense, even if it looks funny... :-)

—SA

Yes, of course, this is what I'm trying to say, this is not you use in the console application. There are applications doing something like that, I suspect, FAR Manager does something like that, so it's possible... You can find out the console's window by processes and inject handling in it, or use local Windows Hook, and Console has API for absolute addressing (of characters and colors). I don't think messing up with such things makes any practical sense, even if it looks funny.
—SA