Thread: C++ Reality Checker

Originally Posted by Replicon

**shudders @ gotos, unnecessary includes, gotos, choice of technology, gotos, and not to mention the gotos**

I can add a few more if you want

Originally Posted by virusexe

I can add a few more if you want

You've already used up your share of gotos, as well as your children's and their children's

cout << "Happy deamin!" << endl;

Also, there's a typo in there.

Not a bad idea for a program, but I'd preferably want it to run on my Linux.

Ugh, Windows API. Use GLUT instead, it's cross platform and much easier to work with. You'll probably find it in OpenGL/GLUT.h

What IDE are you using? It should be yelling at you that you have unused headers.

Gotos , use methods instead. Let's write some pseudocode:

Code:

int main(void){
   Create GLUT window
   setup the GlutKeys() function
   setup the GlutIdleFunc() function
   Prompt for how often to do a reality check  'don't restrict to 15 min increments
   call GlutMainLoop()
}

idle(){
   long t = time + howoften
   while (true){
      if (time > t){
         RealityCheck();
         t = time + howoften;
      }
   }
}

keys(int key){
   select case(key){
      case 'x':
         exit(0);
         break;
   }
}

void RealityCheck(){
   Create new Glut window with RC message
}

There you go: no goto calls, no platform specific API, can set it for any time.

Or, it's trivial to just do something like this in javascript:

Code:

setInterval("doRC()", intervalMinutes * 60000);

Where doRC does whatever you want it to do (opening a window for a few seconds to get your attention and auto-closing it is really easy to do).