Is there a way short of writing a seperate batch file or adding a system call to pause or getch or a breakpoint right before the end of the main function to keep a command window open after a command line application has finished running?
Put differently, is there a way in the project properties to run another command after running the target path? If my program is "foo.exe", something equivalent to a batch file containing
@foo
@pause
Edit: added "or a getch or a breakpoint"
If you run a command line application from an existing command line window, then it won't be closed when it finishes. This is the expected usual case for a command line program.
If you run a command line application by double-clicking on it in Explorer, a new command window is opened until the program completes, then it is automatically closed. I don't know of a way to ask Windows to keep that command window open.
In C++
#include <conio.h>
// .. Your code
int main()
{
// More of your code
// Tell the user to press a key
getch() // Get one character from the user (i.e a keypress)
return 0;
}
If you are in a batch file, the command "pause" outputs "Press any key to continue" and waits for a keypress.
If running in the debugger (going by the title of your question), I just put a breakpoint at the closing brace in the main method.
If one has access to source code,
1.) Will adding a getch() added just before main ends, not puase the application executuion, while displaying the console applications console window as it was? Basically add any code which waits on a keyboard input
-AD
As you may know, at least in the C# project system, pressing Ctrl-F5 will add a "press any key to continue" to the end. But this doesn't run under the debugger, so I endorse the prior answer that said 'put a breakpoint at the end of main'.