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I am looking for a command where i can press m and it pulls up my menu function. i feel retarded cause i tried to look it up but i dont know what i should look for exactly
i know qbasic has a inkey command but i cant figure it out on c++
i know qbasic has a inkey command but i cant figure it out on c++
Qbasic is not a general purpose platform-independent language, it's a concrete implementation of Basic language dialect. No keyboard notion per se in the C++ language. There are lots of keyboard access functions and libraries in C++ implementations.
What's your C++ compiler?
What's your C++ compiler?
Your best bet is to press "M<return>" and use
fgets() to read the input and process the first character. It's portable and will work on ALL compilers. Last edited by WaltP; Nov 24th, 2008 at 6:28 pm.
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