guidence

i`m making a game were the user has to type in there password and instead of seeing the actual password i need to know how to just show the *** sign


just give me a link to a tutorial or something, i`m not asking for help i`m just asking for guidence

-eldian()

Here's a quick and dirty way to do it using conio and getch. Substitute your own nonblocking read where appropriate:

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <conio.h>

using namespace std;

static string getPass()
{
    string pass;
    int i;
    int ch;

    while ((ch = getch()) != '\r')
    {
        if (ch == '\b')
            cout<<"\b\b  \b\b";

        pass += (char)ch;
        cout.put('*');
    }

    return pass;
}

int main(void)
{
    string password = getPass();

    cout<<"\n"<< password <<endl; /* Test print: Does it work? */

    return 0;
}

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