C++ (help)

[Fashong]

Im new at C++ and I wanted to know how to keep the console app up so when you compile and run it, it stays up instead of doing output and exiting. Also I wanted to know how to make a GUI program with C++

[redoc]

I may be wrong, by I assume you are on windows? If so, if you open a command prompt (on winXP goto start>run and type cmd) then you can compile and execute programs with the window staying up.

[aman]

Like redoc said, you can just run the program in a command prompt where the output will stay visible, or at the end of your main function add a line of code that will wait for user input before it closes.

int main()
{

    getchar(); // wait here untill a user presses enter
    return 0;
}

[deadimp]

You can use GetAysncKeyState() if you want it more specific:
[code]#include <windows.h>

int main() {
...
while (GetAynscKeyState(VK_ESCAPE)==0) { }
return 0;
}

[jkd]

I just threw a

cin;

at the end of my main() function, I think...

[Mhtml]

or there's even the system command:

int main(){
   ...
   system("pause");
}

Include stdlib.h if I remember correctly.

[aman]

Originally Posted by jkd

I just threw a

cin;

at the end of my main() function, I think...

The correct way to use cin to pause the program would be..

int main()
{
    ...
    cin.ignore();

    return 0;
}