Hello, my first post here, i saw thad there is nice community here and hope you guys will help me a little to become "Pro C++ Game's Dev" hehe. I have some C++ Issues, when im writing a code's accordingly to the "Beginning C++ Game Programming" Book, i have my windows jumping for like 10 mil.seconds and gone. Author words: "When you run the Game Over program, you might only see a console window appear and disappear just as quickly. That's because C++ is so fast that it opens a console window, displays Game" he wrote some codes thad will make you to press enter to exit the app. | std::cout << "Press the enter key to exit"; std::cin.ignore(std::cin.rdbuf()->in_avail() + 1); it was working on all the apps till i get to code's with the "cin" command in it, For Example: // Game Stats // Demonstrates declaring and initializing variables #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { int score; double distance; char playAgain; bool shieldsUp; short lives, aliensKilled; score = 0; distance = 1200.76; playAgain = 'y'; shieldsUp = true; lives = 3; aliensKilled = 10; double engineTemp = 6572.89; cout << "\nscore: " << score << endl; cout << "distance: " << distance << endl; cout << "playAgain: " << playAgain << endl; //skipping shieldsUp since you don't generally print Boolean values cout << "lives: " << lives << endl; cout << "aliensKilled: "<< aliensKilled << endl; cout << "engineTemp: " << engineTemp << endl; int fuel; cout << "\nHow much fuel? "; cin >> fuel; cout << "fuel: " << fuel << endl; typedef unsigned short int ushort; ushort bonus = 10; cout << "\nbonus: " << bonus << endl; cout << "\nPress the Enter Button"; cin.ignore(cin.rdbuf()->in_avail() + 1); return 0; } When i type the Fuel it just exiting the Dos. I'am using "Dev-C++" Compiler. Some help please? BTW i didn't saw CODE tag like on other forums, so i just pasted it normally =]

replace the lines:

cout << "\nPress the Enter Button";
cin.ignore(cin.rdbuf()->in_avail() + 1);


with:


system("pause");


and that should work.

Thanks alot,
its working,
do i need to put this at end of all my apps?
because i really dont want it on my other one's,
there is some other way?
anyway i think ill fing it on the book,
thanks alot.

edit:
and how can i make the "Press and key to continue..." message to start on new line.??

Another way to do it - if you want to specify yourself the message to be displayed - is to display the message you want the user to see, then make the console app wait for user input.

eg.

cout << "You must press Enter to continue!";
cin.get();


although, that will only accept the enter key to proceed, any other keys the user presses will be displayed in the console window.

Quote:Original post by IsseyMiyaki
there is some other way?

The proper way is to run console applications from the console.

Quote:Original post by IsseyMiyaki
edit:
and how can i make the "Press and key to continue..." message to start on new line.??

The same way you make anything on a new line; by outputting an std::endl or "\n" to std::cout.

Thanks Alot Guys,
its working perfectly.