RE: [Dev-C++] using getch with cin.

[Ioannis V. <no...@ya...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev...@li...
> [mailto:dev...@li...]On Behalf Of
> Chris Bunney
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 10:38 PM
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: [Dev-C++] using getch with cin.
>
>
> Hi everyone.
>
> I wrote a function using dev c that overloads the insertion operator for a
> class. I used the getch() function within this function and everything
> worked fine.
>
> However, when I took this code to college the next day and
> compiled it under
> MS Vusual C++ it caused all sorts of problems. My lecturer said
> this was to
> do with getch using different buffers that cin.
>
> Is there a way to make sure that getch will work with cin on all
> compilers?


No, since getch() is not part of ANSI C++. Also it is not even part of ANSI
C, so any program using getch() is not considered portable.


Ioannis


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