HOW do i press any key to continue??????

DrewDough · 2004-01-26T23:02:14

high, i have a simple text RPG game and when the player kills someone, i want it to say "press any key to continue" and then execute then next line of code ive actually come up with this problem a lot and cant seem to fix it. the best way i came up with to do this is char holder; cout>>"Press any key then press enter to continue">>endl; cin << holder; but this forces the user to press a key THEN enter to continue the game. i also thought about using getline, considering it has a terminating argument IE when you press that key it will end therfore doing string holder; cout>>"Press enter twice to continue">>endl; getline (cin,holder,'/n') but that caused a whole load of problems throughout my whole game (i think it has something to do with cin.ignore() but i just would rather not mess with getline at all. anyway, so how do i do it? the problem is i have a bunch of clearscreens inside my game, so some stuff gets wiped out before you can see it, so my idea was to add a "press any key to continue" before i cleared the screen, so you could see what you were suposed to see. now that i think about it, isnt there a sleep() function that will wait an x amount of seconds before it goes to the next line of code? what is the sytax for that, and what headers to i include? maybe ill just make it delay instead, it seems to make more sence, although id still like an answer to my first question because i come up with that problem a lot. thanks for any help.... [edited by - graveyard filla on January 25, 2004 3:49:41 PM] [edited by - graveyard filla on January 25, 2004 3:50:33 PM]

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Started by graveyard filla January 25, 2004 02:47 PM

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Ademan555

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January 26, 2004 03:00 AM

#include <iostream>#include <conio.h>int main(){std::cout<<"Press O for options, hit enter to continue...\n"; switch(getch()  {     case ''O'':     case ''o'':     //OPTIONS MENU     break;     case ''\n'':     //CONTINUE     break;  }return 0;}

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Deranged

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January 26, 2004 03:52 PM

quote:Original post by Ademan555

... switch(getch()...

umm switch(getch())

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Ademan555

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January 26, 2004 11:02 PM

sri...typo, he should know how to close a parenthesis tho...hell be fine

When General Patton died after World War 2 he went to the gates of Heaven to talk to St. Peter. The first thing he asked is if there were any Marines in heaven. St. Peter told him no, Marines are too rowdy for heaven. He then asked why Patton wanted to know. Patton told him he was sick of the Marines overshadowing the Army because they did more with less and were all hard-core sons of bitches. St. Peter reassured him there were no Marines so Patton went into Heaven. As he was checking out his new home he rounded a corner and saw someone in Marine Dress Blues. He ran back to St. Peter and yelled "You lied to me! There are Marines in heaven!" St. Peter said "Who him? That's just God. He wishes he were a Marine."

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