hi- i could really use some help with this opengl demo that im creating. its not actually an opengl question but more of a c++ question. so im trying to create a class that has three two dimensional arrays and one one dimensional array as private members and i have a function as a public member that loads these arrays. here is the declaration: class cINeedHelpPlease { private: int *texCount; // 1-D Array char *texFiles; // 2-D Array float *texCoords; // 2-D Array float *vertexCoords; // 2-D Array public: void load(int texCountLOAD[], char texFilesLOAD[][12], GLfloat texCoordsLOAD[][2], GLfloat vertexCoordsLOAD[][3]); }; so that is the essential part of this class. i''m having a huge problem passing the arrays to the member function and storing those arrays in the dynamic arrays, single and mulitdimensional. so my question is how do i set up the load member function? i''ve tried it but i''ve had no luck. i don''t understand what i''m doing wrong. should i be using vectors instead of dynamic arrays to hold 3D vertices? ANY help would be appreciated. thank you for your time.

ok this is the furthest ive gotten. this code compiles and runs but not all of the vertices are loading up. i know that it is a problem with my dynamic arrays. so here is the relevant code:


this is in the main code:

cHelp SP1;

SP1.load(sp1TexCount, sp1TexFiles, sp1TexCoords, sp1Vertex);


this is in the class header:

class cHelp {
private:
int *texCount;
char (*texFiles)[12];
GLfloat (*texCoords)[2];
GLfloat (*vertexCoords)[3];

public:
void load(int texCountLOAD[], char texFilesLOAD[][12], GLfloat texCoordsLOAD[][2], GLfloat vertexCoordsLOAD[][3]);
};


this is in the class code:

void cHelp::load(int texCountLOAD[], char texFilesLOAD[][12], GLfloat texCoordsLOAD[][2], GLfloat vertexCoordsLOAD[][3]) {
texCount = new int[sizeof(texCountLOAD) / sizeof(int)];
texCount = texCountLOAD;

texFiles = new char[sizeof(texFilesLOAD) / sizeof(texFilesLOAD[0])][12];
texFiles = texFilesLOAD;

texCoords = new GLfloat[sizeof(texCoordsLOAD) / sizeof(texCoordsLOAD[0])][2];
texCoords = texCoordsLOAD;

vertexCoords = new GLfloat[sizeof(vertexCoordsLOAD) / sizeof(vertexCoordsLOAD[0])][3];
vertexCoords = vertexCoordsLOAD;
}


as i said before this compiles and runs but not all of the vertices load up. so only part of the character loads. i know that it is a problem with my dynamic arrays. so what am i doing wrong? should i even be using dynamic arrays? should i use vectors? im dont know what STL is. so if you wouldnt mind posting that code, i would appreciate it. but my main problem is with these dynamic arrays. i dont understand why im having such a tough time declaring them inside a class. ive done dynamic arrays before but not mulitdimensional ones. thanks in advance. any help would be appreciated.

Not quite sure, but just a suggestion - try not copying the arrays directly like that, but each value seperately in a loop.
I think there is actually an array copying function... memcpy or sumthin like that.

awesome. i finally figured it out. the only reason why im posting this is to help other people in the future. i hope it does.

the problem was with the sizeof() function. i ended up putting all of the vertices and texture coordinates in a .txt file because i was so sick of working on this project and i needed to try something new (i was ready to give up opengl!). anyway it still wasnt working. so i started to fool around with the sizeof function. i finally got it to work. so in conclusion, fool around with sizeof() (if you are using it) before you rip your hair out.

thank you to the people who replied to my post to try to help me. i really appreciate it.

onward.