Help

Guys,

I am trying to create a login screen, that will prompt the user for a name and password - but the problem is I don't want the password on the screen, instead I want some asterisk sign. I don't want to use the conio.h file.

Is there any way to do it (the ANSI way) ?

to my knowledge, there is not.... I had the same question a while back and I could not find a way around the conio.h solution.... why exactily do you want to avoid it?

altho, the Borland compiler does have a kb_hit() function, but I don't know if that would work for you....

cheers

Hi,

I didn't want to use conio.h because that's not ANSI (as far as I know).

Anyways, now conio.h will do - here's a program I found out a while ago -


#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <conio.h>


using namespace std;



void main()
{
string password;

cout <<"\nPassword\t:\t" << endl;

char c = 't' ;

while (c != '\n')
{
c = getch();
password += c;
putch('*');
}


cout << "\nYou entered\t:\t" << password << endl;
getch();

}


The code seemed alright - but unfortunately doesn't work. Can't figure this out. Any help would be great - thnx.