2 Semi-Newbie Questions.

Ok so I'm relatively new to C++, I'm writing a text-based RPG, similar to LoRD and running into a few problems.

First off, I use getch(), to pause the program and wait for key presses at certain points. Now in 90% of the program, it works fine. But at a couple points it does not. I see no difference in the 2 places. Maybe you can help, here is an example:

This Part Works:
int newgame() //Starting a New Game
{

playermaxlife=50, playermaxmana=5, playercurrentlife=50, playercurrentmana=5, playerlevel=1, playerexperience=0, playergold=5000000, playerarmor=1, playerweapon=1;

system("CLS");

SetConsoleTextAttribute(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HA NDLE),FOREGROUND_BLUE | FOREGROUND_INTENSITY);
cout << "Welcome once again to Darkwood, " << playername << ".\n";
cout << '\n';
cout << "The town of Darkwood is in emmence danger.\n";
cout << "The Dragon of Darkwood is terrorizing the town, and slaughtering innocents.\n";
cout << "It is now you job to kill the Dragon, hopefully you will succeed, where so many have failed!\n";
cout << '\n';
SetConsoleTextAttribute(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HA NDLE),FOREGROUND_GREEN | FOREGROUND_INTENSITY);
cout << "Hit Enter to go on...";
getch();
town();

}

This Part Does NOT:
int theanimaltrail()
{
system("CLS");

cout << "Check it out";
cout << "Hit Enter to return...";
getch();
town();
}

Any Clue?

Second:

I need a variable (weaponname) to be given a value that is a string (the name of the weapon) how do I do this?

All I wanna do is weaponname="a short sword"; but can't figure it out for the life of me.

I need to be able to change it at will, hence it being a variable, the name will change.

Thanx, for you help.
Darkflame

P.S. - Real quick. What's the RandomInteger function? I wanna do a random number between 1-6.

I'm not having any problems with either getchar( )s, although I did get rid of town( ), and made playermaxlife=50, playermaxmana=5, ... ints. That should not have affected anything.

For the second question I made an enum and a very stripped down class for getting you started. That is of course if I understood the question.

Code:

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <cstring>
#include <iostream>
using std::string;
using std::cout;
using std::endl;


enum WeaponType
{
	shortsword,
	longsword,
	mondosward
};


class CWeaponName
{

protected:

	WeaponType      m_wt;
	string                  m_sWeaponName;

public:

	CWeaponName( ) : m_wt(shortsword), m_sWeaponName( "" )
	{}

	const char * getweapon(  )
	{
		return m_sWeaponName.data( );
	}

	void setweapon( WeaponType wt )
	{
		switch( wt )
		{
			case shortsword:
				m_wt = shortsword;
				m_sWeaponName = "shortsword";
				break;
			case longsword:
				m_wt = longsword;
				m_sWeaponName = "mondosward";
				break;
			case mondosward:
				m_wt = mondosward;
				m_sWeaponName = "mondosward";
				break;
		}
				
	}
};


int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
	CWeaponName wp;
	
	wp.setweapon( shortsword );
	cout << wp.getweapon( ) << endl;

	wp.setweapon( longsword );
	cout << wp.getweapon( ) << endl;


	wp.setweapon( mondosward );
	cout << wp.getweapon( ) << endl;

	return 0;

}

I hope this is what your looking for.

dang

If you use a c_style string as opposed to the STL string class then you use strcpy() to copy a string into a variable as opposed to the assignment operator. strcpy() is in string.h or cstring depending on your compiler.

int theanimaltrail()
{
system("CLS");

cout << "Check it out";
cout << "Hit Enter to return...";
getch();
town();
}


Assuming you have the right headers included the problem with this piece of code is that the function is declared to return an int but there is no return statement.....