Making text adventures (begginer)

I am a real begginer programming in Visual C++ 6.0.

I want to make a text adventure game and I don't know how to start. Knowing me and my types of questions, it's probably some really easy solution ...but here's the only code I have to give you an idea of what I want to do:

#include <iostream.h>
int main()
{
char direction;
cout<<"Type 'right', 'left', 'up', or 'down' to move";
cin>>direction;
if (direction == "right") //?
cout<<"You moved right";
return 0;
}

I want it so that when the user types "right" it will displaly "You moved right". If the user types "Left" if will display "You moved left" ...etc.

Thanks,

Funky

here is a possible solution

Code:

#include <iostream.h>
#include <conio.h>

int main(void)
{
    char c;

    cout<<"Type 'right', 'left', 'up', or 'down' to move"; 
   // Use whatever method you need to get the keys
   // getch is just a function that gets the arrow keys so i use it here
    c = getch();
    if(c == 'M') // Right Arrow Key
        cout<<"You moved right"; 
    if(c == 'K') // Left Arrow Key
        cout<<"You moved left"; 
    if(c == 'H') // Up Arrow Key
        cout<<"You moved up"; 
    if(c == 'P') // Down Arrow Key
        cout<<"You moved down"; 
    return 0;
}

please note that getch functions differently on different compilers so you may need to find an alternate input method. but it should work as needed here in MSVC.

Im trying to make a text RPG too.
And i'm wondering... how would i do to make a "Press enter to continue"?
If u just use cin >> on a char you first have to enter a letter for anything to happen.

well once again this is a compiler dependant thing but most of the time it can be solved like so, this works with MSVC by the way.

Code:

#include <conio.h>
#include <iostream.h>

void pause(void)
{
    cout << "Press any key to continue." << endl;
    while(!_kbhit())
        ;
    getch();	// clear the key from the input
}

you may need to look into character arrays (strings), although you might be able to code around their use.

i also like the switch statement
it only uses integers, BUT characters are converted to integers using the ascii code so they also work


to pause you COULD use system("pause") which will display a pause messege, something like "Press any key to continue", and waits for any key to be pressed.
OR use cin.get(character) in a loop until enter (\n) is recieved

*note* cin >> recieves input upto the first whitespace character, thus that whitespace chacter has a way of causing annoying problems. So, when changing from input with cin >> to cin.get, you may need to remove the space or return character happily waiting to ruin your input. cin.ignore() will "ignore" the next character, and cin.ignore(x) will "ignore" the next x number of integers

grrr i AM registered!!! Login problems :/

anyway, yes kbhit() is another way of creating a pause
But as you said, it's compiler dependent. I tried it once and it didnt seem to work properly for me (MSVC++ 6.0). I'm sure the problem was i coded it wrong *shrug*

About the original problem:

Code:

char dir[9];
cin >> dir;
if(strcmp(dir, "left"))
    move left