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Ok, Thats find. I thought it was required
Its all up to you really. You are the one putting the stakes here.
If you look at the deleteEntry function you will see that it iterates through the book and deletes the first entry it finds that matches the name and bails out after that. So the questions arises; what if there are more entries with the same name? Should they be deleted? Did we intend to delete the last entry and not the first?
When trying to solve these issues, having a unique ID for each entry could come in handy.
While I'm at it, the findEntry function has a
break statement in the loop that will make it bail out after finding an entry. This was a bad idea. If we simply remove the break statement it will continue to list more entries that matches the name.
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All I get is errors. If you wanted a list of the errors. I can paste then for you.
Yes always do that. Thats the best way to get answers around here =)
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Ok. I keep for getting that I have to state just what I want. How about an easy way to add colors.
instead of this line
SetConsoleTextAttribute(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), FOREGROUND_GREEN | FOREGROUND_INTENSITY);
how about using some thing like this
TextColor(#) // The # refers to a number of the color.
TextBackGround(#) // same as above
Well Microsoft decided that it should look like this
SetConsoleTextAttribute(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), FOREGROUND_GREEN);However, C++ has a lot of ways for us to make shortcuts ourself.
You could for example make a wrapper function at the top of your code somewhere
void TextColor(short color){ SetConsoleTextAttribute(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), color);}
From then on you could change the color like this
TextColor(FOREGROUND_GREEN);It turns out that FOREGROUND_GREEN is a synonym for a number.
You can try replacing it with a number and see what color you get, eg.
TextColor(5); should work.
I did write an overloaded operator once to make switching between colors easy with the cout object.
It looks like this:
First we create a new data type to represent the colors
enum ConsoleColor{ fgGreen = FOREGROUND_GREEN, fgRed = FOREGROUND_RED // more colors...};
Then we overload the << operator for our new data type
ostream& operator << (ostream& out, ConsoleColor& color){ SetConsoleTextAttribute(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), color); return out;}
Now, we can switch colors *on the fly* like this
cout << fgGreen << "This line is green " << fgRed << "This line is red" << endl;
Just a funny little thing =)
Anyway, the bottom line is that we can make wrapper functions or macros to make things easier, but we can't avoid using the SetConsoleTextAttribute function all together. At least not that I know of.
