Key input

[egolovin]

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++

[ArkM]

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?

[egolovin]

visual c++

[WaltP]

Your best bet is to press "M" and use fgets() to read the input and process the first character. It's portable and will work on ALL compilers.

[ArkM]

visual c++

Have a look at non-standard header . Use getch/getche functions (in console mode applications only - hi, qbasic ;) ). If you are developing GUI application, keyboard key access depends of selected GUI platform...