Navigating console menu

Question

I'm totally new and I don't know how else to ask this or what to even search for.

The case is this: I want to navigate through a menu with several sub-menus. In this example I'll just use "options" and a "game" to illustrate what I mean. Say you have a menu with 3 options.

1 - Start

2 - Options

3 - Quit

Choosing options should take you to another menu. Which would then look something like

1 - Difficulty

2 - Sound

3 - Back

Depending on where you go from here, there will be more sub menus obviously. I've tried nesting do-while loops and all kinds of things but I just don't have enough understanding to know what it is I'm doing wrong.

Here is what I have so far:

#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  int choice;

    do{
    cout << "Main Menu\n";
    cout << "Please make your selection\n";
    cout << "1 - Start game\n";
    cout << "2 - Options\n";
    cout << "3 - Quit\n";
    cout << "Selection: ";
    cin >> choice;

         switch(choice) {
           case 1:
             cout << "Pew pew!\n";
             break;
           case 2:
             cout <<"????\n";
             break;
           case 3:
             cout << "Goodbye!";
             break;
           default:
             cout << "Main Menu\n";
             cout << "Please make your selection\n";
             cout << "1 - Start game\n";
             cout << "2 - Options\n";
             cout << "3 - Quit\n";
             cout << "Selection: ";
             cin >> choice;    
         }
      } while(choice !=3);                            
    system("PAUSE");
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

Which works like a regular menu. But I have no idea where to go from here. I consulted some books, but finding anything even remotely related to this was completely random. Any help or examples would be greatly appreciated.

What happened with nesting tons of loops just made all loops execute simultaneously every time. How do I keep this from happening? Making more choices? (choice1-2-3 etc ? or what?)

Answer 1

Ok guys. Thanks for all the help. This is what I ended up with in the end. It runs as I want it to and by max_'s example and Mike B's commentary I think this works pretty well.

Thanks alot everyone =)

#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>


using namespace std;

void menu();
void mainMenu();
void optionsMenu();
void options();
int choice1 = 0;
int choice2 = 3;

int main(int argc, char** argv) {



    menu();



    return 0;
}


void menu(){

        do {
        choice2 = 0;
        mainMenu();

        switch(choice1) {

            case 1:
                cout << "Pew pew!\n";
                break;

            case 2:
                options();
                break;

            case 3:
                break;

        }

    } while(choice1 != 3);


}

void options(void) {

    do {
        optionsMenu();

        switch(choice2){

            case 1:
                cout << "So difficult!\n";
                break;

            case 2: 
                cout << "Beep!\n";
                break;

            case 3:
                break;

            default: 
                break;

        }

    } while(choice2 != 3);


}




void mainMenu(void) {



    cout << "Main Menu\n";
    cout << "1 - Start game\n";
    cout << "2 - Options\n";
    cout << "3 - Quit\n";
    cout << "Please choose: ";
            cin >> choice1;

}

void optionsMenu(void) {



    cout << "Options Menu\n";
    cout << "1 - Difficulty\n";
    cout << "2 - Sound";
    cout << "3 - Back\n";
    cout << "Please choose: ";
            cin >> choice2;

}