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Started by Shmuel July 06, 2004 08:43 PM

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Shmuel

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July 06, 2004 08:43 PM

I'm programming a game that uses SDL and I don't want to limit it to the windows platform by using any of the windows only functions. Teh book I'm using uses the function wsprintf, which is defined in windows.h. My question is: Is there a c or C++ function like wsprintf? I know about sprintf, but it doesn't append to the string does it? I wasn't sure about that.

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Sneftel

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July 06, 2004 08:52 PM

wsprintf is not a windows-only function, tho it is not a POSIX function. swprintf is more common on UNIX boxes. Note that the only substantial difference between wsprintf and sprintf is that wsprintf uses wide (international) characters.

Shmuel

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July 06, 2004 08:56 PM

What include file is it in, because including windows.h included it.

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Fruny

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July 06, 2004 09:07 PM

I have swprintf in wchar.h

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Shmuel

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July 06, 2004 09:09 PM

fruny, do you mean wsprintf?

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Washu

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July 06, 2004 09:12 PM

No, he means swprintf. It is part of the CRT, which should be with all C compilers.

int sprintf( char *buffer, const char *format [, argument] ... );int swprintf( wchar_t *buffer, const wchar_t *format [, argument] ... );

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Shmuel

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July 06, 2004 09:13 PM

whats the difference between the two?

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