Program requiring enter key be pressed before running

[hersman]

Whenever I run my program, it starts at a blank screen and I have to press the enter key before it will proceed. I have narrowed it down to the cin.ignore(100, '\n'); line in my obtainPayrollInfo() function, but no matter how I have adjusted I can't get it to work with it or without the line. I am needing to enter a name and that is why I have the cin.ignore. If anybody can help me, I would really appreciate it.

Payroll.h

class Payroll
{
private:
	// Private class data members
	string Name;
	double Rate;
	double HrsWrkd;
	double GrossPay;
	double FedTax;
	double SocSec;
	double Medical;
	double NetPay;

	// Private facilitator functions
	void calcGrossPay(double, double);
	void calcFedTax();
	void calcSocSec();
	void calcMedical();
	void calcNetPay();
	static const int UNIONDUES = 20;

public:
	// Public function prototypes

	// Constructors
	Payroll();
	Payroll(string, double, double);

	// Public mutator function prototypes
	void setName(string);
	void setRate(double);
	void setHrsWrkd(double);

	// Public accessor function prototypes
	string getName();
	double getRate();
	double getHrsWrkd();
	double getGrossPay();
	double getFedTax();
	double getSocSec();
	double getMedical();
	int getUnionDues();
	double getNetPay();

	// Public facilitator function prototypes
	void obtainPayrollInfo();
	void calcPayroll();
	double calcDeductions();
	void displayPayroll();

};

	// Constructor functions
	Payroll::Payroll()
	{
	}

	Payroll::Payroll(string name, double rate, double hours)
	{
		Name = name;
		Rate = rate;
		HrsWrkd = hours;
	}

	// Mutator functions
	void Payroll::setName(string name)
	{
		Name = name;
	}

	void Payroll::setRate(double rate)
	{
		Rate = rate;
	}

	void Payroll::setHrsWrkd(double hours)
	{
		HrsWrkd = hours;
	}

	string Payroll::getName()
	{
		return Name;
	}

	double Payroll::getRate()
	{
		return Rate;
	}

	double Payroll::getHrsWrkd()
	{
		return HrsWrkd;
	}

	double Payroll::getGrossPay()
	{
		return GrossPay;
	}

	double Payroll::getFedTax()
	{
		return FedTax;
	}

	double Payroll::getSocSec()
	{
		return SocSec;
	}

	double Payroll::getMedical()
	{
		return Medical;
	}

	int Payroll::getUnionDues()
	{
		return UNIONDUES;
	}

	double Payroll::getNetPay()
	{
		return NetPay;
	}

	// Facilitator functions
	void Payroll::obtainPayrollInfo()
	{
		cin.ignore(100, '\n');
		
		cout << "Enter employee's name:  ";
		getline(cin, Name);

		cout << "Enter employee's hourly pay rate:  ";
		cin >> Rate;

		cout << "Enter employee's hours worked:  ";
		cin >> HrsWrkd;
	}

	void Payroll::calcPayroll()
	{
		calcGrossPay(Rate, HrsWrkd);
		calcFedTax();
		calcSocSec();
		calcMedical();
		calcNetPay();
	}

	void Payroll::calcGrossPay(double rate, double hours)
	{
		GrossPay = rate * hours;
	}

	void Payroll::calcFedTax()
	{
		FedTax = GrossPay * .25;
	}

	void Payroll::calcSocSec()
	{
		SocSec = GrossPay * .088;
	}

	void Payroll::calcMedical()
	{
		Medical = GrossPay * .02;
	}

	double Payroll::calcDeductions()
	{
		double deductions = FedTax + SocSec + Medical + UNIONDUES;
		return deductions;
	}

	void Payroll::calcNetPay()
	{
		NetPay = GrossPay - calcDeductions();
	}

	void Payroll::displayPayroll()
	{
		cout << setiosflags(ios::fixed) << setprecision(2);
		cout << "Employee's Name:  " << Name << endl;
		cout << "Employee's Pay Rate:  " << "$" << Rate << endl;
		cout << "Employee's Hours Worked:  " << HrsWrkd << endl;
		cout << "Employee's Gross Pay:  " << "$" << GrossPay << endl;
		cout << "Employee's Total Deductions:  " << "$" << calcDeductions() << endl;
		cout << "Employee's Net Pay:  " << "$" << NetPay << endl;
	}

arrayPayroll.cpp

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <string>

using std::cout;
using std::cin;
using std::endl;
using std::string;
using std::ios;
using std::setiosflags;
using std::setprecision;

#include "Payroll.h"

int main()
{
	char entry = 'Y';
	int maxNo = 0;
	int x;

	Payroll arrPayroll[100];

	for (x = 0; x < 100; x++)
	{
		Payroll myPayroll;
		myPayroll.obtainPayrollInfo();
		myPayroll.calcPayroll();
		arrPayroll[x] = myPayroll;

		maxNo++;

		cout << "Do you want to enter another employee? (Y or N):  ";
		cin >> entry;
		entry = toupper(entry);

		if (entry == 'N')
		{
			x = 100;
		}

	}

	for (x = 0; x < maxNo; x++)
	{
		cout << endl << "Employee No. " << (x + 1) << endl;
		arrPayroll[x].displayPayroll();
	}

	system("pause");

	return 0;
}

[matsom]

Try to move the cin.ignore(100, '\n'); to the end of your function, another way you can code that function is by using getline and stringstream: http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/articles/6046/

[D80DSL3A]

Try moving that cin.ignore(100, '\n'); command to follow line 33 in arrayPayroll.cpp. You can then remove it from Payroll::obtainPayrollInfo()

cin >> entry;
cin.ignore(100, '\n');// new line
entry = toupper(entry);

I think that will work.