How to censor password?

[Duthomhas]

Suggestion: do your own work, making sure that your program functions correctly (according to the assignment, no more and no less), and avoid all the pretty stuff. I would also have a comment in there with the echo function to explain why that is all you need.

[KyeMiraina]

im suppose to include that extra stuff for more marks XD also to make it look as close to an actual site as possible

[Duthomhas]

Ah. Well, the SetConsoleMode() function will also allow you to set the input mode to unbuffered input, so that every time the user presses a key it is immediately available as input.

A useful function is also here:
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/articles/7311/2/#msg106286

The method is to get the user's input, and saving it to string, writing '*'s to the screen. You'll need to handle '\b' (backspace) specially. The enter key is '\r'.

Good luck!

[KyeMiraina]

I've finally managed to mask the passcode. well there's that problem with the backspace, but as long as they dont type it in wrongly it should work XD

[Duthomhas]

If they press the backspace just remove the last character from your string and print "\b \b".

Glad you got it working!