RE: [Dev-C++] conio

[P.D. v. Z. <pa...@my...>]

What kind of advice is that? :|
Do you know anything about C or C++ at all?
C does not know about the concept of namespaces, so "using namespace std"
would only generate an error.
As for the C++ "#include <conio>", this will not work either. conio is not,
never was, and never will be a standard header, and trying to include it in
the C++ header fashion won't make any difference whatsoever, you'll still
get errors.
And of course, conio.h isn't a standard header for C either, so the chances
of "#include <conio.h>" working are small too. MingW provides a contributed
(and broken) conio implementation, because so many Borland and Microsoft
users think this header is standard, and come crying to the lists when it
doesn't work on a standards-compliant compiler.
My advice is to avoid conio at all costs. For Win32 you're much better off
using the Win32 API to accomplish the same tasks (positioning the cursor,
etc), and for true DOS console manipulation you should be using a different
compiler (try DJGPP for example), because MingW is for Win32, and creates
only Win32 executables. You could also look for a "curses" implementation,
which tends to be a bit better at cross-platform compiling, and is a true
third-party library, not something people expect to be standard but isn't.

Regards,


Paul

-----Original Message-----
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Thompson
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 12:41 AM
To: al...@vi...; co...@gm...; dev...@li...
Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] conio

for c++:
#include <conio>

for c:
#include <conio.h>

for both:
using namespace std

hth,
alvin



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