Ending a program anywhere

I saw this earlier post on another site(http://www.programmersheaven.com/c/M...ing=A9999F0006)
and since I'm new to C++ (I've done BASIC), I thought that a variation of it would be nice, since a lot of my programs are really annoying.

How might I set it up so that no matter where in the program it is, if the keys "Alt+F4" are pressed, it will immediately end the program? Using the code at the abovementioned post, I could get "Q" to close at a particular point.

I'm using Microsoft VC++ 6.0 as my compiler, and I am working on a WIN32 Console Application. Feel free to email me. ([email protected])

>> I thought that a variation of it would be nice
That piece of code is junk, pick better ones to learn from. Don't believe everything you read on a msg board. ;)

You could try keyb_event.

How can I get it to constantly be checking for that so that no matter when they press it it does it? I was only using that program as an example.

I could get just one key to end the program, but I'd have to have it use that every line... I don't know how to get it to do 2 things at once.

At the risk of hanging myself out to dry here, what you're speaking of, I believe, is a "thread".

My minimal understanding - which will become blatantly apparent to all - is that you're looking to write a piece of code that will be "suspended" during the normal execution, but "hang" in the background until some specific action is taken by the user, i.e. specific keystrokes.

I have no knowledge of code that can be written in C/C++ that can accomplish what you want to do. This would seem, to me, to be an attribute of a specific compiler/development kit (Java) rather than of the standard C/C++ language.

(Hammer was more concise, as usual. :D)

-Skipper

if u want it to check for that key an if statement would work would it not?

You want Windows hooks then.

Perhaps you could try the windows board, or a search on Windows Hooks.

Sure, you could do that with multithreading, but I'll use Salems suggestion:

ctrl+c, it will kill any console, (pretty sure).

The upside is that the programmer need do nothing but tell the user that (if they don't already know it). The downside is that you won't have a chance to deallocate dynamic memory (unless you are using C++, in which case you can put cleanup code in the destructors of your classes, which *should* be called in that event).

whoa... slow down people .. ;) Poor old Trauts doesn't want to know about multi-threading apps just yet. The term walking before you run spring to mind.

If you have it available, you can use kbhit() to determine if there's input to be read. If so, you can then use getch() to get that input. Extended keystrokes will require 2 calls to getch() to get all the information. This whole process requires your code to be running in a loop, checking kbhit() each time round.

As Seb said though, CTRL+C is always a short way out if your desperate.

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From the original post:
I thought that a variation of it would be nice, since a lot of my programs are really annoying.

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What's annoying about them? Maybe your design could do with a rework.

yea bro, no matter what flaws your progs have, have pride because they are yours man : )

Folks,

Ctrl+Break - Lord knows I've used it often enough. ;)

('Ctrl+c' copies highlighted text.)

-Skipper

>>('Ctrl+c' copies highlighted text.)
Maybe in the GUI environment... but at a console level its different.

Good point.

Thanks.

-Skipper

I don't mean they're annoying, its just you can't easily exit them without a lot of trouble.

On a completely different note, using '\a' to beep

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cout << "Message\a\n";

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Is there a way to change the tone/pitch of the beep, so that you could play music as you can in QBasic? Or would I have to go into WAV, MIDI, etc. files to do it? I don't need to use \a to beep, thats just the only way I currently know.

No.