I have a program that loads three triangles from a text file(yes I know it probably should be binary) but I want the array that stores my verticies to be able to be able to handle any number of triangles. Here is what have so far: int mode = ios::in; //Relative path names are allowed char filename[] = "triangle.txt"; fstream fin(filename, mode); if(!fin) { MessageBox(d3d_hWnd, "Could not open file to load data!", "Error!", MB_ICONSTOP | MB_OK); return false; } int i = 0, j = 1; float v[6]; while( !fin.eof() ) { fin >> v[i++]; if( !((j++)%6) ) { triangles[k++].Create(v[0], v[1], v[2], v[3], v[4], v[5]); i = 0; } } And here is the class definition for CVertex: class CVertex { public: float fx, fy, fz; DWORD dwColor; void Create(float Fx, float Fy, float Fz, float R, float G, float B) { fx = Fx; fy = Fy; fz = Fz; dwColor = D3DCOLOR_XRGB( (BYTE) (R*255), (BYTE) (G*255), (BYTE) (B*255)); } }; And I have a declaration for the triangles like this CVertex triangles[24]; Every element could be thought of as a row with each having 3 coordinates(X, Y, Z) and three more with RGB values. And every three elements make up a whole triangle out of three vertecies. Thanks for your help. I do have an idea now on how to do this but more ideas would be appreciated. "Ogun''s Laughter Is No Joke!!!" - Ogun Kills On The Right, A Nigerian Poem.

I think you want something like this:

  CVertex* triangles = new CVertex[NUM_VERTICIES];  

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Martee

Oh yeah...forgot to say, I did use the new operator but it made a funny blue thing appear on the screen...I think it was a really long triangle that was clipped by the screen dimensions.

How can I legally use pointers in doing this?

CVertex *triangles;

with

triangles = (CVertex *) malloc( numtri * sizeof(CVertex));

does work. It says it cannot covert a void * to type CVertex *.

"Ogun''s Laughter Is No Joke!!!" - Ogun Kills On The Right, A Nigerian Poem.

Nevermind...what I said does work...

"Ogun''s Laughter Is No Joke!!!" - Ogun Kills On The Right, A Nigerian Poem.

OK, that DOESN''T work....this is annoying...

Here is the chunk of code to load the datathe whole thing put together)

int mode = ios::in; //Relative path names are allowed
char filename[] = "triangle.txt";
fstream fin(filename, mode);
if(!fin) {
MessageBox(d3d_hWnd, "Could not open file to load data!", "Error!", MB_ICONSTOP | MB_OK);
return false;
}
int i = 0, j = 1, temp, numtri = 0;

while( !fin.eof() ) {
fin >> temp;
numtri++;
}
fin.close;
fin.open;
triangles = (CVertex *) malloc( numtri * sizeof(CVertex) );

float v[6];
while( !fin.eof() ) {
fin >> v[i++];
if( !((j++)%6) ) {
triangles[k++].Create(v[0], v[1], v[2], v[3], v[4], v[5]);
i = 0;
}
}

And at the top I have a CVertex *triangles; declaration. Why doesn''t this work!!! And the -> operator doesn''t work.

"Ogun''s Laughter Is No Joke!!!" - Ogun Kills On The Right, A Nigerian Poem.

Like I said that gives a stange blue triangle on the thing...I used malloc and got it done finally though. The example code that I thought worked and really didn''t, didn''t have a problem with the memory allocation. It was loading the file. After I ran through the file once it was at the eof and wouldn''t load any triangles. And I tried fin.open and fin.close but I forgot they were function calls. Now I have it working perfectly. If anyone still wants to reply if they have a suggestion on doing it better I''m open to them.(other than using new because they shows something funny)

"Ogun''s Laughter Is No Joke!!!" - Ogun Kills On The Right, A Nigerian Poem.

How do you get the size of a file?

But that is basically what I do with the text file but I run the the file stream once to find out how big it is. Then I reopen the stream and store the data in the program.

"Ogun''s Laughter Is No Joke!!!" - Ogun Kills On The Right, A Nigerian Poem.