Ok, since the replies from my recent topic were such a bit help, I'm hoping I'd get the same here. I took some of your advice and decided to have my level data put into a binary file. I've run into some problems though. I have a struct and a class. The struct is where the level data is read into and the class has a declaration of the struct and some other functions to load the level and such.

struct Level_Data
{
	int   s_Level;		// Current level
	int   s_Distance; // Distance until boss
	char* s_Boss;     // Boss directory
};

class CLevel
{
public:
	int InitLevel(char *dir);	// Initialize the level

	Level_Data m_LevelData;		// The level data
};
    

And so far I have the InitLevel() funciton like so:

int CLevel::InitLevel(char *dir)
{
	char filename[255];		// The filename
	char buffer[255];		// Buffer	
	FILE * fp;			// The file

  sprintf(filename, "%s/leveldata", dir);	// Load the filename into a string
	
  // Try to open the file
  if((fp=fopen(filename, "r")) == NULL)
  {
    // If the file could not be opened, print an error message
    printf("ERROR opening file %s\n\n", filename);
    return 1;
  }

       // Get the first three lines of the file to set the current level, distance needed and the boss directory
	fgets(buffer, 255, fp);
        sscanf(buffer, "LEVEL: %d", &m_LevelData.s_Level);
	sscanf(buffer, "DISTANCE: %d", &m_LevelData.s_Distance);
	sscanf(buffer, "BOSS: %s", m_LevelData.s_Boss);

	fclose(fp);
	return 0;
}
    

And last but not least, I have my binary file (or what it's made of so far):

LEVEL: 1
DISTANCE: 10
BOSS: data/meteor
    

In my main loop, I have a function that prints out the data stored in s_Distance, s_Level, and s_Boss. My problem is that when s_Boss is printed to the screen (the data path extracted from the binary file) it only prints out (null) VG-Force | Ekim Gram Productions [edited by - Ekim_Gram on March 23, 2004 7:58:48 PM] [edited by - Ekim_Gram on March 23, 2004 7:59:32 PM] [edited by - Ekim_Gram on March 23, 2004 8:27:01 PM]

Nope, the "rb" doesn't do it either. Still gettting (null) as the output.

And I also tried using char s_Boss[255] but then all I get is a blank space.

EDIT: Well, I dunno what I did but I fooled around with the code for a bit and got it to work. Thanks guys!


VG-Force | Ekim Gram Productions

[edited by - Ekim_Gram on March 23, 2004 8:29:08 PM]

[edited by - Ekim_Gram on March 23, 2004 8:48:46 PM]

Can't you just save all of the hassle and do something like this:

//--To save the data just use:
fwrite(m_LevelData, 1, sizeof(Level_Data), fp);

//--To read the data just use:
fread(m_LevelData, 1, sizeof(Level_Data), fp);


-UltimaX-
Ariel Productions
|Designing A Screen Shot System|

"You wished for a white christmas... Now go shovel your wishes!"

[edited by - UltimaX on March 23, 2004 9:09:51 PM]

BTW:
Here's a test I did and it ran fine:

#include "windows.h"struct Level_Data{		int  s_Level;			int  s_Distance; 	char s_Boss[256];};//int main(int argc, char* argv[]){	//--Write Test	//--	FILE* File = fopen("Test.txt", "wb");	if(File == NULL)	{		return 0;	}//	Level_Data* Data = new Level_Data;	if(Data == NULL)	{		fclose(File);		return 0;	}//	sprintf(Data->s_Boss, "Demon Slayer");        Data->s_Boss[strlen(Data->s_Boss)] = '\0';	Data->s_Distance = 1000;	Data->s_Level = 99;//	fwrite(Data, 1, sizeof(Level_Data), File);	fclose(File);	if(Data)	{		delete Data;		Data = NULL;	}//	//--Read Test	//--	File = fopen("Test.txt", "rb");	if(File == NULL)	{		return 0;	}//	Data = new Level_Data;	if(Data == NULL)	{		fclose(File);		return 0;	}//	fread(Data, 1, sizeof(Level_Data), File);	Data->s_Boss[strlen(Data->s_Boss)] = '\0';//	printf("BOSS    : %s\n"	       "LEVEL   : %d\n"	       "DISTANCE: %d\n", Data->s_Boss, Data->s_Level, Data->s_Distance);	fclose(File);	if(Data)	{		delete Data;		Data = NULL;	}	return 0;}

-UltimaX-
Ariel Productions
|Designing A Screen Shot System|

"You wished for a white christmas... Now go shovel your wishes!"

[edited by - UltimaX on March 23, 2004 9:22:56 PM]