Pasting data from clipboard

[dean11]

My users will be copying in a string about 50 characters long, which the program will decrypt. I have this working fine in a Javascript version. In C++ it's a different story. How can they paste this string from the clipboard into the application?

This ...

string coded;
cout<<"Copy in the string";
cin>>coded;
cin.get();
cout<<"You entered: "<<coded;
cin.get();

... works for typing in the string but copying and pasting just outputs "You entered: ^v"

Is this moderately possible for someone new to C++ ??

Thanks

[Dweia]

Well, easiest way would be to have them copy it to a file, then read it in from the file probably.

You can find a bunch of tutorials on file I/O around the place, just google for them.

You'd want something like

#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>

using namepsace std;

int main()
{
    ifsttream in_file;
    in_file.open("file name here");
    //Now you can use in_file like cin to get the file contents basically
}

[anonytmouse]

You can right click on the console window to paste.

[beanroaster]

How do you have it in JavaScript? Otherwise do you want to do this?:

char coded[50];
cout << "Copy in the string";
cin >> coded;
cin.get();
cout << "You entered: " << coded;
cin.get();

Well, i'm not sure thats exactly what you wanted, but hey, I'm new from JavaScript too. In fact, I dont even know what cin.get() even does!

[dean11]

Thanks Dweia.

This worked.

Actually I/O was the very next cprogramming tutorial I had to look at but I thought I was getting in too deep.