ok. well, your code looks good to me. i guess there are two options from here. one is to load the entire file into a temporary buffer and read data from the buffer. or meddle with the FILE structure. i suggest the first, actually the first will make your routine a lot faster {if you ask me}. have you checked the error result from ferror(FILE *);?

ferror() return 32. Whatever that means. I already searched MSDN but I didn''t seem to be able to find a table with the meaniings of these error codes. A plain ''32'' doesn''t help me at all. I already knew that there was an error.

And how would you read a file into a buffer and then extract info from that buffer? I mean, my file is a big bunch of variables of all kinds of data types and I don''t even know how big the file is. I have no clue how to read that into ONE buffer and then extract the information out of it later. And why would it speed up my routine? I have to read the file anyway. One way or the other. Whether I process the information right away or later wouldn''t really make a difference, would it?

"Mr Sandman bring me a dream"

firstly, reading the entire file once into a buffer will definitely speed up the process because a: you don''t have function call overhead of calling "fread" so many times. b: the drive doesn''t need to be accessed so many times. and c: memory is alway faster then drive access { that''s why we have RAM, or we''d just use hard drives as RAM ( not meaning to be rude ) }. now to get the file size just use the following code.

long filesize(FILE *fHandle){  long lPrevPos, lResult;  lPrevPos = ftell(fHandle);  fseek(fHandle, 0, SEEK_END);  /* the position of the end of the file is the file size. */  lResult = ftell(fHandle);  /* return to the previous file pointer position. */  fseek(fHandle, fPrevPos, SEEK_SET);  return (lResult);} 

i can''t tell you why the code isn''t working. contact MS for answer. i''ve found some bugs in MSVC++ in all sorts of wierd areas. i just work around them.

now if you want to access data from within the memory buffer i''ll show you an example.

typedef struct {  char id[10];  int  size;  long ptr_to_chunk;} FILEHEADER;typedef struct {/* whatever you want. */} CHUNK;/* function. */void loadfunc(void){  /* temporary variables. */  long       lSize;  void       *pBuf;  FILEHEADER *pHeader;  CHUNK      *pChunk;  FILE       *fHandle;  /* attempt to open the file. */  if ((fHandle = fopen("somefile.dat", "rb") != NULL) {    /* using "filesize" function from above. */    if ((lSize = filesize(fHandle)) < sizeof(FILEHEADER)) {      /* attempt to allocate temporary buffer. */      if ((pBuf = malloc(lSize)) != NULL) {        /* attempt to read bytes. */        if (fread(pBuf, 1, lSize, fHandle) != lSize) {          /* validate file header. */          pHeader = (FILEHEADER *)pBuf;          if (strncmp(pHeader->id, "myid", 4) == 0) {            if (pHeader->size == lSize) {              if (pHeader->ptr_to_chunk > lSize) {                pChunk = ((char *)pBuf + pHeader->ptr_to_chunk);                /* validate the chunk: etc, etc, etc. */              }              else {                /* bad chunk pointer. */                free(pBuf);                fclose(fHandle);                return (0);              }            }            else {              /* invalid size. */              free(pBuf);              fclose(fHandle);              return (0);            }          }          else {            /* invalid header id. */            free(pBuf);            fclose(fHandle);            return (0);          }        }        else {          /* unable to read bytes. */          free(pBuf);          fclose(fHandle);          return (0);        }      }      else {        /* could not allocate buffer. */        fclose(fHandle);        return (0);      }    }    else {      /* invalid file: file smaller than header. */      fclose(fHandle);      return (0);    }  }  /* could not open file. */  else return (0);}profile the code yourself. i guarantee this will be faster than file access. again, i don''t know why reading a file a bunch of times didn''t work. this is just an alternate solution.    

WOOOOOHOOOOOO!
I fixed it! YEEEEHAAAAAAAAA!

The problem was this line (and two others similar to that):
fread(Joints.keyFramesRot, sizeof(keyframerot), Joints.numKeyFramesRot, File);<br><br>changing it to:<br>for(x = 0; x < Joints.numKeyFramesRot; x++)<br> fread(Joints.keyFramesRot, sizeof(keyframerot), 1, File);<br><br>fixed the problem.<br><br>It was so simple and I didn''t even try it! SOmetimes I could hit myself but that has to wait. At the moment I''m busy celebrating my success!<br><br>See ya and many thanx to y''all! </i> <br><br> "Mr Sandman bring me a dream"