Shadoninja

Is there a way to save in a text based game through the MSDOS window? I want to be able to save the variables that store the mana, health, ect of a player.

I know that to make a simple yes or no question I can do this: [code] int Answer; cin >> Answer; if (Answer == 1) { Response } else { Response } [/code] But in the accounting program (In a recent thread), it registered the key before you hit enter. …

Well. I 'm trying to get a program in C++(MS-DOS) to open another .exe file. I thought there might have been a way with the: [CODE]system ("main.exe") ;[/CODE] to call it, but somehow it does not work and its like it skips it completely. I'd appreciate any help. Thankyou. (Sorry …

Now that I have working program starter, are there any simple methods of filling in the info to it? I just have the base of it set up and I am not sure how to set up the self-typer. If there are any tutorials made for handling things like this …

I am trying to create a simple program that starts up steam from my computer. I have a shortcut on my desktop of steam and when you double click it, it runs the process "steam.exe" When my program executes the line of code "system("start steam.exe")" I get an error saying …

Could someone write an example program that opens up firefox? I would really like to see the syntax to do that. Thanks

Hello, I read in a thread that you could use [CODE=C++]system("start http://www.daniweb.com/");[/CODE] to get the page [URL="http://www.daniweb.com"]Daniweb[/URL] but I am wanting to write a program that the user can enter a website that he wishes to go to then the program takes the user there. I got this so far …

Is there a command that hides the dos window while the program executes??

I ran into a bug on my program that I couldn't find on my own so I decided to transfer my project from Dev C++ to Microsoft Visual Studio. In Dev I got away with [code] string sName; cin >> sName; [/code] But MVS doesn't like doing that. What is …

I have read quite a few tutorials that try and explain these but they just aren't making sense. Could someone try to explain what they are and why they should be used?

I am making a text game where at each situation the user may type in his/her choice on what action to do. Is there a way to make it where if someone were to type "save" or push the "s" key to have the game save or go back to …