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    What the heck...???

    I try to run certain console programs on my computer but how come they automatically close themselves without warning? Does anyone else have this problem or know how to stop it? it has happened before but i just reinstalled the operating system. It gets quite annoying because i can barely run any program!

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    Don't run it by double-clicking, try running it from the command prompt. I know there is another way to keep it from closing, but I'm not at home right now, so I'm not sure what it is.
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    Originally posted by XSquared
    Don't run it by double-clicking, try running it from the command prompt. I know there is another way to keep it from closing, but I'm not at home right now, so I'm not sure what it is.

    No, but in any program, there are getch()'s and while loops to hold the exe open, but it still closes. Im inputting for some programs and it just closes, gayness.

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    Originally posted by KneeGrow
    gayness.
    Only gayness is how the programmer is implementing it. Are you sure the input buffer is cleared before it gets to the getch() call? In my experience this problem is usally between the keyboard and the chair.

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    If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
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    bah. Forget getch(). getchar() is more universal.

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    Originally posted by Thantos
    Only gayness is how the programmer is implementing it. Are you sure the input buffer is cleared before it gets to the getch() call? In my experience this problem is usally between the keyboard and the chair.
    chairs are for the weak, please, i program while playing basketball

    And have you ever thought about the possibility that when i runt he same programs at another location, they magically work? Im guessing thats not a problem with the buffer or the chair/computer stuff

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    Here is a novel concept POST YOUR DAMN CODE IN THE PROPER FORUM

    BTW how they heck do you
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    Gayness is not an insult anyhow.

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    Originally posted by Thantos
    Here is a novel concept POST YOUR DAMN CODE IN THE PROPER FORUM

    BTW how they heck do you a program?
    Besides, gayness wasnt even pointed at anyone, i dunno why you take it so personally. I m just saying my computer is being gay... And you want me to post some code? Every one of my programs do that here i ll just post 1:

    Code:
    while (1) {
           cout<<"lalalala"<<endl;
    }
    and that program right there closes at certain times. Thantos, if you don't know the answer, you don't have to PMS on me

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    I know the answer, its that you aren't programming it correctly.
    I'm not taking it personally. But I hate idiots with a passion which is why I'm being an ass to you.

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    if you know the answer, tell me how to code this program to make it stop closing on itself:

    Code:
    while (1) {
           cout<<"lalalala"<<endl;
    }

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    Ask on the C++ board. Might also want to give such things as: OS, Compiler, FULL code.

    Besides infinate loops are bad and should be avoided.

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    Enough already
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