Thread: dos menu....

hi, drake here, and I have been making a dos "animated" menu that someone could browse through. The only thing I don't get is how I would "Go Back" to the previous menu. For example, if I was in options in Halo(just an example, I'm not making an amazing menu, this is just for learning puposes) and I press the B button, I go back to the previous menu. Here I have some code and I want to use the number 5 in the difficulty menu to go back and the 'n' character in the quit menu to go back. I believe it has to do w/ do loops but I don't really understand them so please assist in any way possible. Thanks.


failed attempt of do loop in code

Code:

    
    cout <<"\n\n\n\n            PRESS ENTER";
    cin.ignore(std::cin.rdbuf()->in_avail()+1);
    system("cls");
    do
    {
        int menu;
        cout<<"G O T Y"<<endl;
        cout<<"\n\n\n";
        cout<<"'~-MENU-~'\n"<<endl;
        cout<<"1 - Start"<<endl;
        cout<<"2 - Quit"<<endl;
        cout<<"Input: ";
        cin>>menu;
    
            switch(menu)
                {
                case 1:
                    int difficulty;
                    std::cout<<"Dfficulty Levels"<<std::endl;
                    std::cout<<"1 - Easy"<<std::endl;
                    std::cout<<"2 - Normal"<<std::endl;
                    std::cout<<"3 - Heroic"<<std::endl;
                    std::cout<<"4 - Legendary"<<std::endl;
                    std::cout<<"5<-GO BACK"<<std::endl;
                    cin>>difficulty;
                    
                    if(difficulty == 1)
                    {
                         cout<<"You picked Easy"<<endl;
                         system("pause");
                    }
                    
                    if(difficulty == 2)
                    {
                         std::cout<<"You picked Normal"<<std::endl;
                         system("pause");
                    }
                    
                    if(difficulty == 3)
                    {
                        std::cout<<"You picked Heroic"<<std::endl;
                        system("pause");
                    }
                    
                    if(difficulty == 4)
                    {
                        std::cout<<"You picked Legendary"<<std::endl;
                        system("pause");
                    }
        case 2:
                  int quit;
                  cout<<"quit? (y/n): ";
                  cin>>quit;
                
                  if(quit == 'y')
                  {
                     system("cls");
                     cout<<"Thank's for playing GOTY!\n\n\nGOODBYE";
                  }
                }
    }while(difficulty == 5 || quit == 'n')

I have the animation part before all this code you see here, I didn't wanna take up a hole page(pretty much alot of system("cls").

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