Thread: Beginner Question about cout and cin

Originally posted by Dillius
Thanks a lot for the help, now cout and cin are working but i have come upon quite an unusualy error message that perhaps someone here will understand:

Compiling...
IMPORTANT1.C
c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\eh.h(32) : fatal error C1189: #error : "eh.h is only for C++!"
Error executing cl.exe.

first thing i noticed. you are getting this error because the file is a c source file, not a c++ source file. the file should be .cpp not .c .

edit: .cpp and use RoDs first code snippet.

One more thing. As you will notice, C++ will automatically drop down a line after you read in a variable, example.

cout << "Enter a number: ";
cin >> somevariable;

cout << "You entered a number!";

Now those cout lines will not display on the same line, but rather the second cout will be under the first just like if we used an endl, because cin >> flushes the buffer.

hmmm you could always get into opengl : )

Well it really seems this book was not designed for learning C++ through microsoft visual C++, soooo.

I just gonna throw out some more questions.

Still wondering what the include is to use draw comands such as:
lineto
circle
etc.

and also if this following piece of code is valid for this software, i cant test it myself until i know what the include to replace graphic.h is:

int graphdriver = DETECT, graphmode;
initgraph(&graphdriver, &graphmode, "c:..\\bgi");

Hate to be puttin so many questions up but honestly half the people i know dont even know how to turn a computer on......

int graphdriver = DETECT, graphmode;
initgraph(&graphdriver, &graphmode, "c:..\\bgi");

I'm no expert, but I don't recognize either of those lines as C++ code, so even if you find the right header file, I don't believe those lines will work.

I just did a box for c++ it sucked but i finally got it.



code

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

int column;

int ledger()
{
cout << "\xDA";
for(column = 2; column < 75 ; ++column)//for the top line
{
cout << "\xC4";
}

gotoxy(75,1);
cout << "\xBF\n";
for(column = 2; column < 24; ++column) //for the right side
{
gotoxy(1, column);
cout << "\xB3";
}
for(column = 2; column < 24; ++column) //for the left side
{
gotoxy(75, column);
cout << "\xB3";
}
gotoxy(1, 24);
cout << "\xC0";
for(column = 2; column < 75; ++column) //for the bottom line
{
cout << "\xC4";
}
gotoxy(1, 4);
cout << "\xC0";
for(column = 2; column < 75; ++column) //for the header line
{
cout << "\xC4";
}
gotoxy(2, 3);
cout << "Number";
gotoxy(9, 1);
for(column = 2; column < 24; ++column) //for the first column
{
gotoxy(9, column);
cout << "\xB3";
}
gotoxy(10, 3);
cout << "Date";
gotoxy(15, 1);
for(column = 2; column < 24; ++column) //for the second column
{
gotoxy(15, column);
cout << "\xB3";
}
gotoxy(16, 3);
cout << " Description";
gotoxy(40, 1);
for(column = 2; column < 24; ++column) //for the third column
{
gotoxy(40, column);
cout << "\xB3";
}
gotoxy(42, 1);
for(column = 2; column < 24; ++column) //for the fourth column
{
gotoxy(42, column);
cout << "\xB3";
}
gotoxy(43, 3);
cout << "Payment";
gotoxy(50, 1);
for(column = 2; column < 24; ++column) //for the fifth column
{
gotoxy(50, column);
cout << "\xB3";
}
gotoxy(52, 1);
for(column = 2; column < 24; ++column) //for the checkoff column1
{
gotoxy(52, column);
cout << "\xB3";
}
gotoxy(53,3);
cout << "Deposit";
gotoxy(62, 1);
for(column = 2; column < 24; ++column) //for the checkoff column1
{
gotoxy(62, column);
cout << "\xB3";
}
{
gotoxy(63, 3);
cout << "Balance";
}
gotoxy(1, 6);
cout << "\xC0";
for(column = 2; column < 75; ++column) //for the first entry
{
cout << "\xC4";
}
gotoxy(1, 8);
cout << "\xC0";
for(column = 2; column < 75; ++column) //for the second entry
{
cout << "\xC4";
}
gotoxy(1, 10);
cout << "\xC0";
for(column = 2; column < 75; ++column) //for the third entry
{
cout << "\xC4";
}
gotoxy(1, 12);
cout << "\xC0";
for(column = 2; column < 75; ++column) //for the fourth entry
{
cout << "\xC4";
}
gotoxy(1, 14);
cout << "\xC0";
for(column = 2; column < 75; ++column) //for the fifth entry
{
cout << "\xC4";
}
gotoxy(1, 16);
cout << "\xC0";
for(column = 2; column < 75; ++column) //for the sixth entry
{
cout << "\xC4";
}
gotoxy(1, 18);
cout << "\xC0";
for(column = 2; column < 75; ++column) //for the seventh entry
{
cout << "\xC4";
}
gotoxy(1, 20);
cout << "\xC0";
for(column = 2; column < 75; ++column) //for the eighth entry
{
cout << "\xC4";
}
gotoxy(1, 22);
cout << "\xC0";
for(column = 2; column < 75; ++column) //for the ninth entry
{
cout << "\xC4";
}
gotoxy(75, 24);
cout << "\xD9";
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