Esc menu

[hobodude19]

I am currently doing a school project. we are allowed to anything as long as it meets the requirements. i have it finished but i want to add something so wherever you are in the code you can press escape and open up a menu that allows you to exit the section of code you are in. is there anyway to do this without pausing the program and asking the user?

[jonnin]

This is an extremely complicated thing to do. It may not even be doable in a robust way. You are almost asking for your program to launch itself as its own debugger.

it is not too hard to monitor the keyboard for the escape; a thread can do that, but be sure not to damage the input buffer, only peek at it.

but to stop a 'block of code' mid-stream at any time is nontrivial.

[mbozzi]

Is there anyway to do this without pausing the program and asking the user?

This suggests what you want is much simpler than what you've asked for.

Your question is a bit underspecified.