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    press any key to continue

    How do i disable this in VS2005? i really wanna use my own not the default one

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    Huh?
    It's a convenience since console apps are supposed to be run from a command prompt.
    Plus I would disagree on using "your own solution."
    That "press any key..." message is not there in your final EXE anyway, so what does it matter?

    You can also run with debug, and it won't display that message.
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    io.h certainly IS included in some modern compilers. It is no longer part of the standard for C, but it is nevertheless, included in the very latest Pelles C versions.
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    I think the OP wants to use a different message instead of the standard one.

    You can't really do that. In standard C++, the best you could get away with would be to print a message with cout or whatever, and then wait for input. Unfortunately, the user would have to hit enter to continue, not just any key, since C++ input is line-buffered.

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    http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284385
    http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284385

    For non-standard solutions, see
    http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284392
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    For the heck of it, our own article
    http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawik...=Pause_console
    Quote Originally Posted by Adak View Post
    io.h certainly IS included in some modern compilers. It is no longer part of the standard for C, but it is nevertheless, included in the very latest Pelles C versions.
    Quote Originally Posted by Salem View Post
    You mean it's included as a crutch to help ancient programmers limp along without them having to relearn too much.

    Outside of your DOS world, your header file is meaningless.

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    You can include <conio.h> in your program. You could then do something like this:

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    cout<<"Press any key to continue"<<endl;
    _getch();
    Of course you can use whatever message you want in the cout().

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    Conio.h is non-standard, however, and thus should be avoided.
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    io.h certainly IS included in some modern compilers. It is no longer part of the standard for C, but it is nevertheless, included in the very latest Pelles C versions.
    Quote Originally Posted by Salem View Post
    You mean it's included as a crutch to help ancient programmers limp along without them having to relearn too much.

    Outside of your DOS world, your header file is meaningless.

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    This "press any key ... " can be inconveniencing. On my console app, i have define a box area where inputs are entered ad out puts are shown. This bl##dy press any key just appears at the wrong places and messes up everything

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    Then just run in debug-mode and it will never appear.
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    io.h certainly IS included in some modern compilers. It is no longer part of the standard for C, but it is nevertheless, included in the very latest Pelles C versions.
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    Outside of your DOS world, your header file is meaningless.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elysia View Post
    Then just run in debug-mode and it will never appear.
    And when the application runs in real life?

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    Quote Originally Posted by csonx_p View Post
    And when the application runs in real life?
    It is not part of your application at all - it is part of the runtime environment that MS Visual Studio creates for your application to run in - it adds the "pause" command to the end of your application OUTSIDE of the application. If you run it from a command prompt window, then you won't see it (because it's not there).

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    Quote Originally Posted by matsp View Post
    It is not part of your application at all - it is part of the runtime environment that MS Visual Studio creates for your application to run in - it adds the "pause" command to the end of your application OUTSIDE of the application. If you run it from a command prompt window, then you won't see it (because it's not there).

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    Oh! and what if i needed it? I mean i'm writing an application assuming that everything which shows now will show as is on the user side .. If i'm hearing you correctly you state that the "press any key.." message wont show when running the exe file ...

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    It will not, simply because command line apps are not supposed to be run from the shell. They are supposed to be run from the cmd, if anything.
    Quote Originally Posted by Adak View Post
    io.h certainly IS included in some modern compilers. It is no longer part of the standard for C, but it is nevertheless, included in the very latest Pelles C versions.
    Quote Originally Posted by Salem View Post
    You mean it's included as a crutch to help ancient programmers limp along without them having to relearn too much.

    Outside of your DOS world, your header file is meaningless.

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    Ok, i've learnt that i could just use getch() instead of system("pause") which causes "press any key ..." .. But both seem not to be a good idea from few ... any ideas as to which function to call instead of the two to pause/halt ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by csonx_p View Post
    Ok, i've learnt that i could just use getch() instead of system("pause") which causes "press any key ..." .. But both seem not to be a good idea from few ... any ideas as to which function to call instead of the two to pause/halt ?
    The real question here is "why do you want to do that..."

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    Quote Originally Posted by matsp View Post
    The real question here is "why do you want to do that..."

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