[Jimbo7136]

Skydiver, on 05 July 2012 - 02:27 PM, said:

value is a wchar_t. If you want to output it's contents, you'll need to use wcout, instead of cout.

system("pause");

Seriously? You are so concerned about optimizing your system, and here you are starting a whole CMD.exe child process to just output "Press any to continue..." and wait for a keypress?

Thank you very much, it works properly now.

If I leave out system("pause") the output flashes by and the window closes before I can read it.

[Skydiver]

Jimbo7136, on 05 July 2012 - 01:33 PM, said:

Skydiver, on 05 July 2012 - 02:27 PM, said:

value is a wchar_t. If you want to output it's contents, you'll need to use wcout, instead of cout.

system("pause");

Seriously? You are so concerned about optimizing your system, and here you are starting a whole CMD.exe child process to just output "Press any to continue..." and wait for a keypress?

Thank you very much, it works properly now.

If I leave out system("pause") the output flashes by and the window closes before I can read it.

Here are some MSVC and Windows specific options:
Option 1: Press Ctrl-F5.

Option 2:

#include <conio.h>
:
cout << "Press any key to continue...";
_getch();

Option 3: Step through your code by pressing F10.

Option 4: Have a CMD window open where you run your console apps.

This post has been edited by Skydiver: 05 July 2012 - 01:45 PM

[Jimbo7136]

Skydiver, on 05 July 2012 - 02:43 PM, said:

Jimbo7136, on 05 July 2012 - 01:33 PM, said:

Skydiver, on 05 July 2012 - 02:27 PM, said:

value is a wchar_t. If you want to output it's contents, you'll need to use wcout, instead of cout.

system("pause");

Seriously? You are so concerned about optimizing your system, and here you are starting a whole CMD.exe child process to just output "Press any to continue..." and wait for a keypress?

Thank you very much, it works properly now.

If I leave out system("pause") the output flashes by and the window closes before I can read it.

Here are some MSVC and Windows specific options:
Option 1: Press Ctrl-F5.

Option 2:

#include <conio.h>
:
cout << "Press any key to continue...";
_getch();

Option 3: Step through your code by pressing F10.

Option 4: Have a CMD window open where you run your console apps.

Umm, stupid question maybe, but how are these options better than:

system("pause");

?

[jimblumberg]

Why mention _getch()? Why not just use getchar() or cin.get(), both standard functions.

Jim

[Skydiver]

jimblumberg, on 05 July 2012 - 01:48 PM, said:

Why mention _getch()? Why not just use getchar() or cin.get(), both standard functions.

Jim

Since he is already on Windows and using VS2010, _getch() would fit right in.

Get getchar() and cin.get() don't work the same as _getch(). The user has to press Enter. So the prompt will have to be "Press Enter to continue...", rather than "Press any key to continue...". Additionally, "pause" does not echo any input, while getchar() and cin.get() echo inputs until Enter is pressed. _getch() does not echo and returns immediately when a key is pressed.

[Skydiver]

Jimbo7136, on 05 July 2012 - 01:48 PM, said:

Skydiver, on 05 July 2012 - 02:43 PM, said:

Jimbo7136, on 05 July 2012 - 01:33 PM, said:

Skydiver, on 05 July 2012 - 02:27 PM, said:

value is a wchar_t. If you want to output it's contents, you'll need to use wcout, instead of cout.

system("pause");

Seriously? You are so concerned about optimizing your system, and here you are starting a whole CMD.exe child process to just output "Press any to continue..." and wait for a keypress?

Thank you very much, it works properly now.

If I leave out system("pause") the output flashes by and the window closes before I can read it.

Here are some MSVC and Windows specific options:
Option 1: Press Ctrl-F5.

Option 2:

#include <conio.h>
:
cout << "Press any key to continue...";
_getch();

Option 3: Step through your code by pressing F10.

Option 4: Have a CMD window open where you run your console apps.

Umm, stupid question maybe, but how are these options better than:

system("pause");

?

Why add overhead to your program when you don't need it?

RTFM: system(): http://msdn.microsof...(v=vs.100).aspx

system() goes and fires up another process: the command interpreter.

Ctrl-F5 just has Visual Studio run your program, and it waits for you to press a key.

_getch() runs within your program and waits for a key.

Stepping through your program runs your program and you can examine your variables, or look at the program output at your leisure.

Running your program in a CMD window just lets your program run and you don't have to worry about calling _getch() or system().

[Jimbo7136]

Skydiver, on 05 July 2012 - 03:04 PM, said:

Jimbo7136, on 05 July 2012 - 01:48 PM, said:

Skydiver, on 05 July 2012 - 02:43 PM, said:

Jimbo7136, on 05 July 2012 - 01:33 PM, said:

Skydiver, on 05 July 2012 - 02:27 PM, said:

value is a wchar_t. If you want to output it's contents, you'll need to use wcout, instead of cout.

system("pause");

Seriously? You are so concerned about optimizing your system, and here you are starting a whole CMD.exe child process to just output "Press any to continue..." and wait for a keypress?

Thank you very much, it works properly now.

If I leave out system("pause") the output flashes by and the window closes before I can read it.

Here are some MSVC and Windows specific options:
Option 1: Press Ctrl-F5.

Option 2:

#include <conio.h>
:
cout << "Press any key to continue...";
_getch();

Option 3: Step through your code by pressing F10.

Option 4: Have a CMD window open where you run your console apps.

Umm, stupid question maybe, but how are these options better than:

system("pause");

?

Why add overhead to your program when you don't need it?

RTFM: system(): http://msdn.microsof...(v=vs.100).aspx

system() goes and fires up another process: the command interpreter.

Ctrl-F5 just has Visual Studio run your program, and it waits for you to press a key.

_getch() runs within your program and waits for a key.

Stepping through your program runs your program and you can examine your variables, or look at the program output at your leisure.

Running your program in a CMD window just lets your program run and you don't have to worry about calling _getch() or system().

Points taken.

I'll do it as you suggest. I'm thinking option 2 for convenience sake.

[jimblumberg]

Requiring another header file inclusion just to hold the command window open when running this though his IDE is overkill in my opinion. He is already using iostream so just use the iostream solution.

Jim

[Skydiver]

jimblumberg, on 05 July 2012 - 02:07 PM, said:

Requiring another header file inclusion just to hold the command window open when running this though his IDE is overkill in my opinion. He is already using iostream so just use the iostream solution.

Jim

True. But we MSVC users are spoiled by precompiled headers, so the extra header only costs on the first compile. :-) And the MSVC runtime DLL is already loaded into memory by the time main() gets called.

Personally, I just always use Ctrl-F5 for my quick and dirty programs written in the MSVC IDE. For more involved programs, I have SlickEdit as my editor, and I have separate build and unit test console windows. Full runs are usually launched from either window only if all the unit tests pass.

This post has been edited by Skydiver: 05 July 2012 - 02:21 PM