Hello all,

Looking for a little help. I have used SDL with TTF quite a bit and I am fairly comfortable with it at this point. This error has me dumbfounded however, and I have no more ideas of how to proceed. I have tested the Font loading and TTF_RenderText_Solid. The surface returned from the rendertext function is not a null pointer, but it must be the issue, as my program crashes anytime I try to blit a text surface. I have used the same blitting function for standard images, and it works just fine.

I have also checked all my compiler linking (I am using code::blocks), it is fine. I have loaded up old programs, recompiled them, and they work just fine. I have no idea where to go from here. My button class is where I am trying to utilize text, so that is what I will be showing.

Edit: In case anyone ends up asking, I did call TTF_Init();

 
#include "text.h"
 
std::map <std::string, SDL_Color> Text::mColors;

std::map <std::string, TTF_Font *> Text::mFonts;



SDL_Surface * Text::applyText( std::string strText, std::string strFont, std::string strColor, int * w, int * h )

{

    SDL_Surface * surface = NULL;



    surface = TTF_RenderText_Solid( mFonts[ strFont ], strText.c_str(), mColors[ strColor ] );



    TTF_SizeText( mFonts[ strFont ], strText.c_str(), w, h );



    return surface;

}
 
 
 
#ifndef TEXT_H

#define TEXT_H



#include <map>

#include <string>



#include "SDL/sdl_ttf.h"



class Text

{

    public:

        static SDL_Surface * applyText( std::string strText, std::string strFont, std::string strColor, int * w, int * h );



        static std::map <std::string, SDL_Color> mColors;

        static std::map <std::string, TTF_Font *> mFonts;

};



#endif // TEXT_H
 
 
 
// inside of Display.cpp
 
void Display::loadFonts()

{

    initInput( "Resources/ResourceListFonts.txt" );



    while( !isFile.eof() )

    {

        readLine();



        if( !strData.empty() )

        {

            std::string strFont = strData;



            readLine();



            std::string strFontPath = strPath + strData;



            int fontSize = readValue();



            TTF_Font * newFont = NULL;



            newFont = TTF_OpenFont( strFontPath.c_str(), fontSize );



            mFonts.insert( std::pair <std::string, TTF_Font *> ( strFont, newFont ) );

        }

    }



    freeInput();

}
 
 
// in button.cpp
 
Button::Button( int iX, int iY, std::string strSurf, std::string strFunc, std::string strText )

{

    x = iX;

    y = iY;

    w = Display::getImageWidth( strSurf );

    h = Display::getImageHeight( strSurf );



    iTextW = 0;

    iTextH = 0;



    strFunction = strFunc;

    strSurface = strSurf;



    surfaceText = NULL;



    if( !strText.empty() )

    {

        strSurfaceText = strText;



        surfaceText = Display::applyText( strSurfaceText, "monospaceTypewriter12", "black", &iTextW, &iTextH );

    }



    sClipX = 0;

    sClipY = 0;

}
 
 
void Button::render()

{

    Display::applySurface( x, y, strSurface, sClipX, sClipY );



    if( surfaceText != NULL )

    {

        Display::applySurface( ( x + ( iTextW / 2 ) ), ( y + ( iTextH / 2 ) ), surfaceText );

    }

}
 

Thanks for the replies! As far as I can tell (with error checking) the pointers are valid. I set up error checking and not a single error occurs. The program just crashes when a text rendered surface hits the blit function.

Edit:

Are you sure mFonts[strFont] does not return a null pointer?

Yes, I have even tried filling in all the render text solid parameters with solid values, generated IN that function, and the crash still occured at the blit function.

I have also tried freeing the rendered text surface immediately after creation, and the program crashes, yet the pointer is not NULL. Again, my other programs work just fine with TTF, what on earth could the issue be?

Edit: Finally got a crash report (Only does it once out of every 10 runs )

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Space Invaders.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 51e53cc5
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7600.16385
Fault Module Timestamp: 4a5bdb3b
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000335f2
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: e3cc
Additional Information 2: e3cc0ee538989a7b66ab90686b3c00a6
Additional Information 3: d22a
Additional Information 4: d22a3993b2d48ddd96705e026b50390c

Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll <-- What is this?

Sorry to post so many times in a row, but I found a solution.

The program only crashes when I use a vector of my button class. If I make it a vector of pointers, it works. Anyone know why this is? (Not a big deal, pointers are fine, I simply don't understand why that would cause a crash).

Thank you both again for the replies!

I do not ever think to use the debugger =(, will do my best to remember.

There was some error about std::mem_copy or something similar, so it must have been vector copying errors.