Text - based RPG Menu

[Hopeforthelost]

Oi! I'm trying to build a menu for a text based rpg. So that whenever your done "doing something" it always comes back to it. I was wondering if there is a way that i could keep "vital" stats in a sort of header at the top of the console.

Thanks.

[Athar]

There is no standard way to do that, however you can use libraries such as ncurses and pdcurses to accomplish this.

[Hopeforthelost]

Well I know there is no specific way. And by libraries, what do you mean?
IS there like kinda of a base skeleton all menu's would follow?

[Athar]

By 'standard' I did not mean 'specific', but rather that this it is not possible with standard C++.
For what a library is, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_%28computing%29

I was referring to keeping stats in a fixed position in the console, by the way.

For the central menu it would make sense to have a function displayMenu that displays the menu, a function that reads an user choice and a function for each entry in the menu. The main loop could then look like this:

for (;;)
{
  displayMenu();
  int choice=readUserChoice();
  switch (choice)
  {
     ...
  }
}