If Statement Issues

[windog]

I am new to c++ and I am learning c++ by making a text rpg game that my friend and I made using batch files a long time ago. I almost instantly came across a problem that I don’t see a problem with, but my debugger did. Maybe you could take a look at my code and tell me what I did wrong. (Notes: I’m using Visual C++ 2010, for whatever reason “using namespace std;” wasn’t working so I specified each std but I wasn’t sure if the if statement was std or not and I tried it with “using std::if;” and without.)


  #include <iostream>

using std::cout;
using std::cin;
using std::endl;


int main()
{
   //start


   cout <<"++=======================-Game-=========================++"<< endl;
   cin.get();
   cout <<"Choose"<< endl;
   cout <<"1) Start Game"<< endl;
   cout <<"2) Quit"<< endl;
   endl;
   cin >> choice1;

   if (choice1 == 2){

      cout <<"Bye"<< endl;
      cin.get();
   }

   //game


   if (choice1 == 1){

      cout <<"You wake up in a daze head spinning and a Man is standing above you..."<< endl;
      cin.get();
   }
   return 0;
}

[Michael Hall]

What is the error message that you are getting from the compiler?

[windog]

"There were build errors. Would you like to run the last successful build?" And when I hit yes it runs the program until the if statement then when i type a response it ends the program.

[windog]

I copied and pasted the code into a new project and the error message was "Unable to start project '(my projects destination on my computer)'. The system could not find file specified.

[windog]

I just had to declare choice1. But new question now the only " cin.get();" to work is the first one. Any suggestions on how to fix this.

[Michael Hall]

Execute the program by pressing (CTRL + F5). This is the "Start without debugging" option, and it will keep the window open.

Mike

[windog]

Hello me again, I was wondering if there was a way to collapse whole sections of code (like the warrior class version of the game) so I could collapse it when I’m not working on the warrior class’ version but another class’ version. I thought using data structures would work but the std library wasn’t working in the struct{  } is there any code I could use to collapse sections of code?

[Michael Hall]

If you're using Visual C++ 2010, you should be able to do that by default. There are little plus boxes next to the code.

Mike

[windog]

Yes but only by “int main()” or if I add “struct”s  was wondering if I could place these and collapse certain parts of the code instead of the entire main.  (On and unrelated note)  I will most likely be posting A LOT on this forum thread so do not get too annoyed with me and I thank you for the time that you spend responding to me.

[Michael Hall]

Don't sweat it. I don't get annoyed. You should be able to collapse any block of code (defined by {}), individually. That includes the code for a struct, class, if, for, etc., as long as you enclose the code in braces ({}).

Mike

[windog]

Huh that is strange; in my project the only brackets I can collapse are the “int main()” and the section above were I include. Could it possibly have something to do with my settings, because I also do not have numbered lines it hasn’t bothered me much. I have used other IDEs like Dev C++ in my previous attempts to learn C++ and when I opened Visual C++ for the first time I thought it was weird that it didn’t have the lines numbered and I just figured it was something you could personalize in the settings but I never dug too deep into finding it.

[Michael Hall]

You should get the collapse-able section without the line numbers, I think. However, you can enable line numbering too. Maybe that will do it.

http://xoax.net/comp/cpp/visualcpp/EnablingLineNumbering.php

BTW, once you make a new block, you may need to go away from it for minute before it shows up.

Mike

[windog]

In my game I have a main menu were you can go to the dungeon, the town, go to your inventory, see your characters stats, read up on the history of my made-up world, but the problem I’m having is when I’m done looking at my Inventory etc. I can’t get back to my main menu. When I first made the game using batch files I just used goto (I’m sure you are familiar with bat files but if not goto just says if “user input” the goto a specific part of the code) I there a goto- like code in c++ I could use.

[Michael Hall]

Yes, there are gotos, but they are highly frowned upon. You just put a label in your code followed by a colon and then write goto <label name>.

Code:

EndLoop:

// some to loop over.

goto EndLoop;

Mike

[windog]

Why frowned upon?

[Michael Hall]

Frequently, goto statements are abused and cause unreadable spaghetti code, which is difficult to debug. So, they have acquired a bad reputation. I'm not a big believer in such rules, since I think that anything can be abused and create bad code if one isn't careful. However, I don't use goto statements.

Mike