Thread: storing values.....NEED HELP.

to store a value you use a variable...you should start from the beginning of the tutorials and work your way up...the value wont get loaded again automatically unless you store tha value in a file on your hard drive and load from there...once the pogram closes its memory in ram are cleared there for you use the HD for storage.

The basic way to do that is to store the value in a file. Learn how to use fstreams, which are not much different than cin and cout.

I don't see anything in there about fstreams (file streams). Your program should open the file as an input stream and read in the value you want to save. If the file doesn't exist then start with a default value (like 0). After the user has made the changes to the balance, you can open the file again as an output stream and write out the new balance (or whatever value you want to save). The next time the program is run the new data should be in the file.

You can make it more advanced by writing other things to the file, just remember to write them in a specific order and read them in using the same order. To make it easy, you should just read in the whole file at the beginning and save the information while the program is running, then re-write the whole file from the start when the program ends.

thx for the help, and for puttin up with my stupidity.... i had used the fstream before but i guess i messed it up.... i rewrote it and now it works.

Code:

#include "data2.h"

int main()
	{
	ifstream bal_i ("balance.cpp");
	bal_i>>V.p_bal;
	bal_i.close();
	ofstream bal_o ("balance.cpp");
	clrscr();
		{
	if(V.p_bal == 0)
		{
		cout<<"Please input a starting balance.\n";
		cout<<">";
		cin>>V.p_bal;
		clrscr();
		}
	
	else
	if(V.p_bal != 0)		
			{
			cout<<"Your previous balance was "<<V.p_bal<<"\n";
			cout<<"\nPress Enter to continue...\n";
			cin.get();
			clrscr();
			}
			char exit = 'n';
			while(exit != 'y')
				{
				clrscr();
				MENU();
				switch(V.sel)
				{
				case 0 :
				exit = 'y';
				V.p_bal = V.total;
				bal_o<<V.p_bal;
				bal_o.close();
				break;
				
				case 1 :
				cout<<"Insert a value to be added to "<<V.p_bal<<"\n";
				cout<<">";
				cin>>V.add;
				clrscr();
				V.total = V.p_bal + V.add;
				cout<<"Your new total is "<<V.total<<"\n";
				cout<<"\nPress any key to continue...";
				cin.get();
				cin.get();
				break;
				
				case 2 :
				cout<<"Insert a value to be subtracted from "<<V.p_bal<<"\n";
				cout<<">";
				cin>>V.sub;
				clrscr();
				V.total = V.p_bal - V.sub;
				cout<<"Your new total is "<<V.total<<"\n";
				cout<<"\nPress any key to continue...";
				cin.get();
				cin.get();
				break;
				}
			V.p_bal = V.total;		
}
}
}
				
void MENU()
	{
	cout<<"\t..[]-MENU-[]..\n";
	cout<<"\n(1) Add to "<<V.p_bal<<".\n";
	cout<<"(2) Subtract from "<<V.p_bal<<".\n";
	cout<<"(0) Exit\n";
	cin>>V.sel;
	}
void clrscr()
	{
	COORD coordScreen = { 0, 0 };
    DWORD cCharsWritten;
    CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO csbi;
    DWORD dwConSize;
    HANDLE hConsole = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
    
    GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(hConsole, &csbi);
    dwConSize = csbi.dwSize.X * csbi.dwSize.Y;
	FillConsoleOutputCharacter(hConsole, TEXT(' '), dwConSize, coordScreen, &cCharsWritten);
    GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(hConsole, &csbi);
    FillConsoleOutputAttribute(hConsole, csbi.wAttributes, dwConSize, coordScreen, &cCharsWritten);
    SetConsoleCursorPosition(hConsole, coordScreen);
    }

Does this right to u?

This is the header file....

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;
void clrscr();
void MENU();
class variables
	{
	public :
	
		float p_bal;
		float add;
		float sub;
		int sel;
		float total;
	private :
		
	};
class variables V;

this is balance.cpp where the value is stored

Code:

V.p_bal

And im just postin all of this because there might be more people that had my prob.