Thread: incremental save

Hi, I`m a beginner in c/c++. I wrote a program with MSVC with allegro library which draws some graphics and then saves it from a buffer to a bitmap file. I want to save incremental filename bmp like 0000.bmp , 0001.bmp 0002.bmp etc. with an animation but I dont seem to find any references to how to do it. So could you please help me?

I thought that something like this might do the job but it faild:

Code:

string my_string1 = a_int_variable
string my_string2 = ".bmp";
string my_string3 = my_string1 + my_string2;

save_bitmap(my_string3, theBuffer, desktop_palette);

I use to code with proce55ing in which, to do this kind of job i just have to write saveFrame("name-####.tga"); to get name-0001.tga , name-0002.tga etc.

is there any simple way to do this? (sorry if my english is bad)

Thx!

wsprintf would do this

Code:

int FrameNumber=0;
char FileName[MAX_PATH];
...
wsprintf(FileName, "%03d.bmp", FrameNumber);

thx for the respnse.

wsprintf declared in Winuser.h and included in Windows.h,

after trying to compile the code i get " : error C2371: 'BITMAP' : redefinition; different basic types" because BITMAP seems to appear in windows.h and in allegro.h

how can I use wsprintf and allegro library without this conflict?

Thank you very much!