On the subject of movement, I've taken the easy route for now and just used cout (and my color/position manipulators from a couple months ago) to draw a player sprite (in fact simply an "X") at the center of the map. Then, during the main loop, where I catch VK_ESCAPE to quit in the last code example I gave, I pass the vkey value to my HandleKeypress function, which changes the values in a "myposition" COORD depending on which arrow key I've hit.
Now, my problem with this was that I would move more than I wanted to allow per frame (that is, one square per frame). I managed to fix that (a boolean "moved", if true then no changing of myposition), but now my problem is a more difficult one: I want to be able to tap an arrow key and have it move once, but also hold it and let it move as long as I want, and let go and stop movement. The letting go is the issue here, because you only let go when you SEE that you're where you want to be, but by then the frame has begun and it's already captured your continually-held movement key. Once you've let go, it doesn't realize that, and so it moves you one past where you wanted, and THEN stops. A real pain, isn't it?
So, currently I'm working through that little hitch, and I'll update again when I've got that working.
