Starting Allegro

[toonlover]

Hello there! I am starting allegro and am getting familiarized with it... I am trying to device a structure that holds a dynamically sized (BITMAP*) array. However I get a compile error when I try to build it...

#include <allegro.h>
#include <cstdio>

class Sprite
{
    public:
    BITMAP **frames[];
    Sprite(){}
    Sprite(BITMAP* addFrame, unsigned int size){
        frames = new BITMAP*[size];
        }
}temp;

error is:

||=== SpriteClass, Debug ===|
C:\Projects\CodeBlocks\SpriteClass\main.cpp||In constructor `Sprite::Sprite(BITMAP*, unsigned int)':|
C:\Projects\CodeBlocks\SpriteClass\main.cpp|10|error: incompatible types in assignment of `BITMAP**' to `BITMAP**[0u]'|
||=== Build finished: 1 errors, 0 warnings ===|

MINGW as compiler
Any help?

[master5001]

BITMAP **frame[] eh? Did you mean to have the array declaration? I betcha didn't. And just because it drives me crazy... devise*

[toonlover]

Well....to load a bitmap you have to declare a BITMAP pointer like this:

BITMAP* my_picture = loadbitmap( file to load here );

What I want to do is this:

(BITMAP*) *frames[size];

So that I can have an array that contains the corresponding frames of a sprite...such as
frames[0] -> 1st Sprite
frames[1] -> 2nd Sprite
frames[2] -> 3rd Sprite
frames[n] -> nth Sprite

[master5001]

I gotcha. But you are just kind of going to show how I am not wrong by saying you should be dropping the [].