how to implement a menu ?

[sugaray]

hey, i'm having this problem when i'm trying to implement menu
capability in my program, using direction key UP and DOWN to move the
a bar between the menu items, press enter to select it, cudgle my
brain hardly as possibly could I just couldn't figure out how to do
this. and i'm using Visual C++ and I don't know if there's any library
functions to handle text attributes like in Borland C (textcolor()
etc.). so hope some could help me out, thanx in advance.

int scan,extended;
printf("1. log on system\n");
printf("2. log out system\n");
printf("3. inquire record\n");
printf("4. record statistics\n");
printf("5. exit system\n");
while((scan=getch())==0 || scan==0xe0) {
extended=getch();
switch(extended) {
case 0x48:
keyup();
break;
case 0x50:
keydown();
break;
default:
oops();
}

Gary.

[Martijn]

Hi Sugaray,

hey, i'm having this problem when i'm trying to implement menu
capability in my program, using direction key UP and DOWN to move the
a bar between the menu items, press enter to select it, cudgle my
brain hardly as possibly could I just couldn't figure out how to do
this. and i'm using Visual C++ and I don't know if there's any library
functions to handle text attributes like in Borland C (textcolor()
etc.). so hope some could help me out, thanx in advance.

You might want to check section 19 of the faq:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/s19.html

Good luck,

--
Martijn
http://www.sereneconcepts.nl

[Malcolm]

"sugaray" <ru****@sohu.com> wrote in message

hey, i'm having this problem when i'm trying to implement menu
capability in my program

You can't manipulate the screen display in ANSI C, and generally you can't
use printf() with platform-specific console functions either.