Reputation: 331

.exe not showing "Press any key to continue..."

In Visual Studio whenever I start without debugging, the .exe file that shows up does not contain the phrase "Press any key to continue..." like it usually does. The screen just has the flashing cursor at the beginning. Is there any easy fix to this? I have commented out some of my code and the phrase shows back up.

This is the code that I have commented out: I have all of the variables and classes declared correctly.

void Maze::addPaths()
{
    Coordinate currentLocation;
    Coordinate startLocation;
    Coordinate endLocation; //not used yet
    std::stack<Coordinate> stack;

    currentLocation.row = (((rand() % HEIGHT) / 2) * 2);
    currentLocation.column = (((rand() % WIDTH) / 2) * 2);

    startLocation = currentLocation;
    grid[currentLocation.row][currentLocation.column] = START;
    player = currentLocation;
    do 
    {
        //drawMaze();
        bool canMoveUp = !(currentLocation.row == 0 || grid[currentLocation.row - 2][currentLocation.column] != WALL);
        bool canMoveDown = !(currentLocation.row == HEIGHT - 1 || grid[currentLocation.row + 2][currentLocation.column] != WALL);
        bool canMoveLeft = !(currentLocation.column == 0 || grid[currentLocation.row][currentLocation.column - 2] != WALL);
        bool canMoveRight = !(currentLocation.column == WIDTH - 1 || grid[currentLocation.row][currentLocation.column + 2] != WALL);

        if (canMoveUp || canMoveDown || canMoveLeft || canMoveRight)
        {
            stack.push(currentLocation);

            //choose random location to dig
            bool moveFound = false;
            while (!moveFound)
            {
                int direction = rand() % 4;
                if (direction == 0 && canMoveUp)
                {
                    moveFound = true;
                    grid[currentLocation.row - 2][currentLocation.column] = PATH;
                    grid[currentLocation.row - 1][currentLocation.column] = PATH;
                    currentLocation.row -= 2;
                }
                else if (direction == 1 && canMoveDown)
                {
                    moveFound = true;
                    grid[currentLocation.row + 2][currentLocation.column] = PATH;
                    grid[currentLocation.row + 1][currentLocation.column] = PATH;
                    currentLocation.row += 2;
                }
                else if (direction == 2 && canMoveLeft)
                {
                    moveFound = true;
                    grid[currentLocation.row][currentLocation.column - 2] = PATH;
                    grid[currentLocation.row][currentLocation.column - 1] = PATH;
                    currentLocation.column -= 2;
                }
                else if (direction == 3 && canMoveRight)
                {
                    moveFound = true;
                    grid[currentLocation.row][currentLocation.column + 2] = PATH;
                    grid[currentLocation.row][currentLocation.column - 2] = PATH;
                    currentLocation.column += 2;
                cout << "yay";
                }
            }
        }
        else if (!stack.empty())
        {
            currentLocation = stack.top();
            stack.pop();
        }
    } while (!stack.empty());
    //addDestinationToGrid();
    cout << "no";
}

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