C++ code help

Armo

hey whats up, im in the process of making a rombox for some old snes and other systems games

i want the system to be totally mouseless, so what i plan on doing is crating a exe in C++ and loading that into the autoexec.bat ( yea the rombox is running 98 lol )

as far as the C++ code is conserned, i havent had a C++ lesson in years and i just wanna try to get it right bofore i exterminate the rombox

so far in the code u have a small little selection menu to choose what emulator to launch depending on the # you enter. Is it possible that once a selection is made that the C++ prog actually launch the exe of the pathed emulator as such

if selection = 1;
then ( *launch the prog from the path )

lol probly a bit crude but gimme some credit its been like 5 years and im only needing this skill now lol

Armo

This is what i have so far, i havent finished getting VSC++ from my schools website yet so i dont know if it will work or come back with 10000's of errors
can any 1 help me out??

the libraries didnt like the lessthan and greaterthan symbols

#include iostream.h
#include shellapi.h
//#include shell32.lib

main ()
{
  int slection
  int value = 4

do
{
cout <<"==========================================================================="
cout << "This menu will help you decide which game emulator you would like to play ";
cout << "1. Will open the 1st and Roms ";
cout << "2. Will open the 2nd and Roms ";
cout << "3. Will open the 3rd Emulator and roms ";
cout <<"==========================================================================="
cin >> selection


if selection = 1;
	then ShellExecute(handle, "open", C:\GBA\1.exe, NULL, NULL SW_SHOWNORMAL);

if selection = 2;
	then ShellExecute(handle, "open", C:\SNES\2.exe, NULL, NULL SW_SHOWNORMAL);

if selection = 3;
	then ShellExecute(handle, "open", C:\MAME\3.exe, NULL, NULL SW_SHOWNORMAL);
} while selection > value;

return 0;
}

JB

#include < iostream >
#include < iomanip >

using namespace std;

int main()
{
	system("I:\\STUFF\\Zips\\550Mhz\\wins3id.exe");
}

worked fine for me using VS.NET 2003 on winXP where wins3id.exe is what i want to run. make sure to use double \\ for the folders. I had to put spaces between < and the libraries because of the code tag.

Armo

ok kool, will my if then statements work if i use that System parameter?

shwaip

I'd do something like this:

int selection = -1;
int value = 4;
cout <<"==================================================  =========================\n";
cout << "This menu will help you decide which game emulator you would like to play\n";
cout << "1. Will open the 1st and Roms\n";
cout << "2. Will open the 2nd and Roms\n";
cout << "3. Will open the 3rd Emulator and roms\n";
cout <<"==================================================  =========================\n";
while(1){
[indent]
cin >> selection;
if(selection == 1) {
//put the code here
} else if (selection == 2) {
//put the code here
} else if (selection == 3) {
//put the code here
} else {
cout << "Please enter a selection from 1-3\n";
}
[/indent]
}

Although I'm not sure if reading in a char with cin and then comparing it to an int will work. I mostly do JAVA.

JB

they should. Do what shwaip says, along with the header that i used.

GHoosdum

I would use a SWITCH/CASE structure (Or maybe SELECT? I forget which language is which...) instead of the IF/ELSE IF structure. Everything else is kosher in my book.

shwaip

it's switch/case for C++...but it doesn't really matter for only 3 options. If there were a bunch more, I'd say yeah, you're right.

a2jfreak

No need to use C++.
If it's simple like Press 1 for emulator X or 2 for emulator Y, then use a batch file.

Armo

a2jfreak wrote:

No need to use C++.
If it's simple like Press 1 for emulator X or 2 for emulator Y, then use a batch file.

well it is that "simple" but i know more about C++ than i do about the basics about a batch file =\

it was my frist intentions of doing it like that but i couldnt remember how to print the menu lol

a2jfreak

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