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Started by Charleh February 28, 2004 01:49 PM

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Charleh

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February 28, 2004 01:49 PM

Whats the best way of storing console messages and such, I want to use a Quake/HL style console but I''m not sure the best way of storing the data - would a temporary file using fstreams be a good idea?

SiCrane

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February 28, 2004 02:04 PM

A temporary file is probably not the best way to do that. My first thought would be a std::deque of std::string objects. Or if you have formatting information, a deque of structs containing the formatting information and the strings.

Charleh

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February 28, 2004 05:22 PM

Well I browsed the Quake src and it turns out that they just use a char to hold all the console information. So thats what I''ve done, works fine for what I need