Thread: I did it!!!!

Thanks to all you guys who helped me out on making my program pause without using getch() or system("pause");

here is a short example of what I did (I had to google as I was going insane!)

Code:

//this is an example of another method to pause screen

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()

{

cout << "Hello I am an example" << endl;

cin.ignore(cin.rdbuf()->in_avail() + 1); // This is the NEW line!!

return 0;

}

The only prob is that after it pauses you have to press a key then hit enter to quit the program, but what do you guys think

HOw about pressing just enter ? works fine for me

Originally Posted by swgh

Thanks to all you guys who helped me out on making my program pause without using getch() or system("pause");

here is a short example of what I did (I had to google as I was going insane!)

Code:

//this is an example of another method to pause screen

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()

{

cout << "Hello I am an example" << endl;

cin.ignore(cin.rdbuf()->in_avail() + 1); // This is the NEW line!!

return 0;

}

The only prob is that after it pauses you have to press a key then hit enter to quit the program, but what do you guys think

Hey, you know, if you just want to pause the screen like you did, you can use this:
cin.get();
that will allow you to pause and then after you press enter it continues, but if you are planning to have some if statements or switch statements, typing something inside the blank space of cin.get(); might interfere with them.

How about if I want to press "any key" without enter?

I mean in terms of streams- not getch().

AFAIK it is not possible in standard C++.

Can you tell me why?

Because different operating systems handle console input in different ways, and so it would be hard for a standard C++ function to know when the user hit a button. The way it works now is that only after the user hits enter does the OS send the data to cin. Non-standard functions like getch don't wait for the OS to send the input to cin, they work with OS specific code to get the keypress immediately.