Thread: Password font & images

1. There is no real standard way. Look into the conio.h library, there is a function called getch() that takes unbuffered input. Take in a character, then output a '*'. If you do a search on the forum, you can find plenty of code examples of this.

2. Considering graphics aren't text, I wouldn't imagine they'd fit into a text-based game. Look into a graphics library.

Mmkay, when you get into game programming, you're going to find how quickly things like cout go away quickly. Yes, it's standard, but that is completely based around console commands. If you're going to write a game with graphics, you'll be using different forms of input and output.

Look into a graphics library. I'd suggest using OpenGL since it's popular, free, and more than acceptable for both 2D and 3D application. Learn the basics of that, then along the way you'll learn input and output with that.

Oh and, don't take what I said to mean "forget about iostream" it's useless. Many, many, many programmers use write and use console applications regularly. But think of it as a really handy screwdriver when right now you're looking for a hammer.