Prompting a user with an input box? [C++]

Question

My goal is to simply use a pop-up box to ask the user for an input. I\'ve searched around quite a bit and pretty much all the results say that creating a messageBox is reall

Answer 1

There is nothing like that for pure C++. Basically what you're trying to do can only be achieved by using an API call to the OS or by using some GUI library like Qt (which I recommend cause it's waaaaay easier then calling native APIs and it's also multi-platform)

Using Qt you can show an input dialog pretty much the same way you do it on java:

bool ok;
QString text = QInputDialog::getText(
        "MyApp 3000", "Enter your name:", QLineEdit::Normal,
        QString::null, &ok, this );
if ( ok && !text.isEmpty() ) {
    // user entered something and pressed OK
} else {
    // user entered nothing or pressed Cancel
}

You can download the Qt library here: qt.nokia.com/products/developer-tools/