I can't explain this

okay I am making a very nice tile engine using a class for the map and a structure for each tile and NPC. It will have lighting effect, 3 layers, weather, etc. But anyways, I'm having problems with my code.

I use fstream to load in the map files, and it loads everything in okay except the tiles. Well, actually the tiles DO load correctly, but if I try to read the tile's value from another function it always thinks it's 0. But if I call it from within the function I load with, it gets the right value. Here is the source that loads the maps, my map class, and the function I am using to fetch the value of the tiles.

Code:

#define MTX 60
#define MTY 45    // Max Deminsions
#define ML 3

...

typedef class map
{
 private:
 BITMAP *MapDrawBuffer;
 tile tiles[MTX][MTY][ML];
 int width, height;
 int camerax, cameray;
 char *MapFileName;
 char MapName[256];
 bool ExcludeSecondLayer;
 public:
 void LoadMap(char *file);
 int GetTileType(int positX, int positY, int positL);
};

Code:

   int LoadPositionX = 0;
   int LoadPositionY = 0;
   
   for (int i=0; i <= height; i++)
   {
    for (int j=0; j <= width; j++)
    {
     MapFile >> buffer;
     clear(screen);
     tiles[LoadPositionX][LoadPositionY][0].type = atoi(buffer);
     textprintf(screen,font,0,0,makecol(255,255,255),"%i",tiles[LoadPositionX][LoadPositionY][0].type);
     LoadPositionX++;
    }
    
    LoadPositionX = 0;
    LoadPositionY++;
   }

Code:

int map::GetTileType(int positX, int positY, int positL)
{
 return tiles[positX][positY][positL].type;
}

Code:

 map CurrentMap;
 CurrentMap.LoadMap("test.tmf");
 clear(screen);
 textprintf(screen,font,5,5,makecol(255,255,255),"%i",CurrentMap.GetTileType(4,3,0));
 readkey();

Sorry if that didn't copy over right. But what is strange is, if you look at the function that loads the map, it has a textprintf, which is Allegro's text function for graphics mode writing, and it displays the tile's type value. And it works perfectly inside the function that loads the map. But when I try to use GetTileType to do it, it ALWAYS gives me 0 no matter what.

I'm not sure what code is for what.

Could you please clarify.

the first one is the map class the second one is the section of LoadMap() that loads the tiles the third one is the one that gets the value of the tiles (since tiles is declared private) and the last one is where I load a map and try to retrieve a value.

I haven't seen %i before, what is that specifier?

integers

try using %d

same results

Hi U,

Are you using binary stream for fstream(), if so that it is fine. But if you are using ios::in then try ios::binary....And let me know what it does

Thanks
Partik Parikh

same results

like I said b4, it IS loading correctly, because there is a textprintf() that displays the value of the type member of tiles, not the buffer itself. So somehow it loses the value of the type member or something.

I can't do much you have to try tracing the code

the only thing i can see is this:

if you haven't typedef'ed the int to tile, then make GetTileType() return a tile instead.

type is an int

here is the tile structure:

PHP Code:

typedef struct tile
{
 int type;
 int AniFrame;
 bool lit;
}; 


Try this:

if(!CurrentMap.GetTileType(4,3,0))
MessageBox(NULL, "The Value Is Indeed Zero", "", 0);
else
MessageBox(NULL, "The Value Is Non-Zero", "", 0);


Then, if it's non-zero, try:

int type = CurrentMap.GetTileType(4,3,0);

textprintf(screen,font,5,5,makecol(255,255,255),"% i",type);

If nothing do:

textprintf(screen,font,5,5,makecol(255,255,255),"% g",type);

Just a suggestion.

I am new to Image Processing and window so i don't understand these