Esc menu

[selimahope]

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?

[Duthomhas]

In order to do that you have to have an event loop running.

Is your school project the usual console application?
Or is it a GUI?

[Grime]

Can always.. Alt + F4 ;)

You need to run two threads; one main thread and one thread waiting for you to press escape. You've got to use some operating system API/user-written library for the 'waiting to press escape' part, because you can't do this with just the standard library.

Anyways if it's a console program and you don't know about threading yet, then I say don't bother and look for other places where you can improve.

edit: Didn't realize I was in Windows Programming.