my very cool new program has a mind boggling probem!!!

**face_master** · 11-29-2001

In my crappy HTML editor (i emphasize crappy) every time it asks for you to imput a paragraph of information, it just skips it (ie.the program outputs "input paragraph...yadayadaya...but just skips it and goes onto the next thing. Here is my code:

Code:

#include <iostream.h>
#include <fstream.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

void getFormat();
void menu();
void getPara();

int main()
{
	remove("HTML Page.html");
	
	cout << "        ***********************************************\n";
	cout << "              Welcome to ChrisHTML version 0.75\n";
	cout << "        ***********************************************\n";
	cout << "This version of ChrisHTML now includes the capability to add paragraphs of text\n";
	cout << "and you may at tags to your text.\n";
	cout << "Before you can do anything, you must set the text colour\nand the background colour...\n";
	system("pause");
	getFormat();
	menu();
	
	ofstream end("HTML Page.html", ios::ate);

	end << "</BODY>\n</HTML>";

	cout << ".:HTML page and source code created:.\n\n";
    
return 0;
}


void getFormat()
{
	char title[50];
	cout << "\nEnter the title for you page: ";
	cin.getline(title, 50);
	cout << "\n";

	int bgcolor;
	cout << "Enter what colour-code for your background (six digits): ";
	cin >> bgcolor;
	cout << "\n";

	int textcolor;
    cout << "Enter the colour for the text (six digits): ";
	cin >> textcolor;
	
    ofstream html("HTML Page.html", ios::ate);

	html << "<!--Generated by ChrisHTML 0.7-->\n";
	html << "<HTML>\n";
	html << "<HEAD>\n";
	html << "<TITLE>";
	html << title;
	html << "</TITLE>\n";
    html << "<meta name=\"GENERATOR\" content=\"ChrisHTML 0.5\">";
    html << "</HEAD>";
	html << "<BODY ";
	html << "bgcolor=";
    html << bgcolor;
	html << " text=";
	html << textcolor;
	html << " >\n";
}

void menu()
{
	int option;
	cout << "\nHere are you current options:\n";
	cout << "[1]Add a new paragraph\n[2]Create HTML\n";
	cout << "(more options in next version)\n";
	cin >> option;
    
	switch(option)
	{
	case 1:
		getPara();
		break;

	case 2:
		break;
	
	default:
		cout << "\nYou must enter a valid integer\n";
        menu();
    }
}

void getPara()
{
	char para[150];
	cout << "Enter the text for your new paragrah -  use the <br> tag for a new line,\n";
	cout << "press enter to stop editing this particular paragragh and go back to the menu:\n";
    cin.getline(para, 150);

    ofstream parag("HTML Page.html", ios::ate);

	parag << "\n";
	parag << "<p>";
	parag << para;
	parag << "<p>";
	parag << "\n";

	cout << "\n";

	menu();
}

The area of the code where there is a problem, is here:

Code:

cout << "Enter the text for your new paragrah -  use the <br> tag for a new line,\n";
	cout << "press enter to stop editing this particular paragragh and go back to the menu:\n";
    cin.getline(para, 150);

Thanks
-Chris

Unregistered · 11-29-2001

I could be wrong but it looks like you have a recursive function in void menu(). You call menu inside of menu without base case to tell the program to exit.

Unregistered · 11-29-2001

Or it may be recursive inside of getpar()

**face_master** · 11-30-2001

oh crap, didn't see that. But would this be causing my problem?

**Vinterwolf** · 11-30-2001

In your main() function you have a line that starts with 'end' that should be endl, and in your switch, you havent got a break; after default: I dont know if it have to be that but I know that you should have one there anyway(the code looks nicer)...

**face_master** · 12-19-2001

I tried putting a break after default: but it didn't work, and the 'end' is just part of the declaration of the ofstream object which creates the html page and was not meant to be an 'endl;'.

Anybody else...?

**rmullen3** · 12-20-2001

I'm not exactly sure at all, but most of the time when using cin.getline I used the endline character '\n' as the third argument. I'm not sure if this is what would cause it or not, cause I'm a n00b... = )

**rmullen3** · 12-20-2001

Like this (you may already know this, more than I do, but who knows =P)

cin.getline(para, 150, '\n');

**face_master** · 12-20-2001

nope, thanks but that didn't have any effect of the prog...

ANYBODY else...?

**Strider** · 12-20-2001

Ignore any possible character before using a getline. If you used a cin with the extraction operator at any time before using a cin.getline, then the newline character will still be in the buffer and getline will automatically take that as its only input. So try this:

Code:

    cin.ignore();
    cin.getline(para, 150);

David

**ihsir** · 12-20-2001

Put another
cin.getline(para, 150);
statement after the 1st one and i think you should get the result you want

so the code should be like ---

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cout << "Enter the text for your new paragrah - use the <br> tag for a new line,\n";
cout << "press enter to stop editing this particular paragragh and go back to the menu:\n";

cin.getline(para, 150);
cin.getline(para, 150);
------
-----
-----

**Darrok** · 12-20-2001

cin.ignore(); would probably work better

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