if ( SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_AUDIO|SDL_INIT_VIDEO) < 0 )
  {
    printf("Unable to init SDL: %s\n", SDL_GetError());
    exit(1);
  }
 

  if ( SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_AUDIO|SDL_INIT_VIDEO) < 0 )
  {
    cout << "cannot initialize" << SDL_GetError()
  }
 

#include <iostream>using namespace std;

quote:Original post by CGameProgrammer
1) This is not a graphics question. This is General Programming. If you had a question specifically about SDL, that would be the OpenGL forum, and if your question was about graphics theory or non-API-specific rendering, that''s for Graphics.

2) printf() is superior to cout. printf can print formatted data, like "%.2f" which prints a number to two decimal places, like "1066.34", or "0x%X" which prints a hex number like "0x1F". The only reason to use cout is that it involves less typing if you don''t care about formatting.

3) You forgot a semicolon at the end of the line that calls cout. Should be:
cout << "Unable to init SDL: " << SDL_GetError() << endl;

4) You forgot to specify "using namespace std" as someone already pointed out. I always forget that too. What makes it more confusing is gcc uses that namespace by default, but VC++ does not.

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quote:Original post by Pigpen
cout << "Decimal " << dec << 0xFF;
cout << "Octal " << oct << 0xFF;
cout << "Hex " << hex << 0xFF;

try swapping 0xFF with 255 in these instances as well

love cout, can't beat simplicity