Thread: Command Line (cin) Hiding & Counter Using C++

Hi.

I was wondering how to:

1) hide what a user types, but still read the keys.

I am working on a program that is involves password protection. I need a way to asks for the pass, but not display it openly just when logging onto any OS. A good example is logging onto linux. It asks for the password, but it does not display what the user enters.

2) code a counter that uses the clock as a seed.

For example let say this is the code:

cout << "testing";
cout << "1 ";
------------------3 second delay
cout << "2 ";
------------------3 second delay
cout << "3 ";

In other word, is there a way to code some type of delay or counter?

Thanks,
Kuphryn

Thanks.

Kuphryn

Thanks.

getch() & getche()

Is it one character per? If yes, it would need to be in a loop structure

Kuphryn

Okay.
I tried implementing:

getch();

and

getche();

VC++ 6 responded with:

c:\x.cpp(179) : error C2039: 'getch' : is not a member of 'basic_istream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> >'

Kuphryn