press any key to continue

How do i disable this in VS2005? i really wanna use my own not the default one

Huh?
It's a convenience since console apps are supposed to be run from a command prompt.
Plus I would disagree on using "your own solution."
That "press any key..." message is not there in your final EXE anyway, so what does it matter?

You can also run with debug, and it won't display that message.

I think the OP wants to use a different message instead of the standard one.

You can't really do that. In standard C++, the best you could get away with would be to print a message with cout or whatever, and then wait for input. Unfortunately, the user would have to hit enter to continue, not just any key, since C++ input is line-buffered.

Also see
http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284385
http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284385

For non-standard solutions, see
http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284392

For the heck of it, our own article
http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawik...=Pause_console

You can include <conio.h> in your program. You could then do something like this:

Code:

cout<<"Press any key to continue"<<endl;
_getch();

Of course you can use whatever message you want in the cout().

Conio.h is non-standard, however, and thus should be avoided.

This "press any key ... " can be inconveniencing. On my console app, i have define a box area where inputs are entered ad out puts are shown. This bl##dy press any key just appears at the wrong places and messes up everything

Then just run in debug-mode and it will never appear.

Originally Posted by Elysia

Then just run in debug-mode and it will never appear.

And when the application runs in real life?

Originally Posted by csonx_p

And when the application runs in real life?

It is not part of your application at all - it is part of the runtime environment that MS Visual Studio creates for your application to run in - it adds the "pause" command to the end of your application OUTSIDE of the application. If you run it from a command prompt window, then you won't see it (because it's not there).

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Originally Posted by matsp

It is not part of your application at all - it is part of the runtime environment that MS Visual Studio creates for your application to run in - it adds the "pause" command to the end of your application OUTSIDE of the application. If you run it from a command prompt window, then you won't see it (because it's not there).

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Mats

Oh! and what if i needed it? I mean i'm writing an application assuming that everything which shows now will show as is on the user side .. If i'm hearing you correctly you state that the "press any key.." message wont show when running the exe file ...

It will not, simply because command line apps are not supposed to be run from the shell. They are supposed to be run from the cmd, if anything.

Ok, i've learnt that i could just use getch() instead of system("pause") which causes "press any key ..." .. But both seem not to be a good idea from few ... any ideas as to which function to call instead of the two to pause/halt ?

Originally Posted by csonx_p

Ok, i've learnt that i could just use getch() instead of system("pause") which causes "press any key ..." .. But both seem not to be a good idea from few ... any ideas as to which function to call instead of the two to pause/halt ?

The real question here is "why do you want to do that..."

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Mats

Originally Posted by matsp

The real question here is "why do you want to do that..."

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Mats

Working with console applications, sometimes you need to echo something