Many Values to One Index

**Muphin** · 03-13-2006

Hi,

I want to take all my SDL_Surface values and put them into one value with an index for every SDL_Surface I have, so that I can put them through a for loop.

This might be impossible, but I'm not too experienced with C++.

If it matters, what I'm trying to do is put all my SDL_Surface values through:

Code:

SDL_FreeSurface( Surface );

So if I'm correct in what I want to do, it'd look like this:

Code:

//Put all my Surfaces into tSurface[iTotalSurfaces]
//TotalSurfaces will, obviously, be an integer representing the total number of surfaces I have

for( int i=0, i<iTotalSurfaces,i++ )
{
SDL_FreeSurface( tSurface[i] );
}

**Magos** · 03-13-2006

The best way would probably to put them into a map (assuming SDL_Surface is some kind of pointer type, if it's a complex structure you're better off using a pointer to it):

Code:

std::map<std::string, SDL_Surface> SurfaceMap;

SurfaceMap.insert(std::make_pair("SomeTexture.png", Surface));

Then to iterate all surfaces:

Code:

std::map<std::string, SDL_Surface>::iterator i;

i = SurfaceMap.begin();
while(i != SurfaceMap.end())
{
  DoSomethingWithSurface(*i);
  i++;
}

This, of course, assumes that each surafce has a filename associated with it. If this is not a case try using an std::set as uniqueness is guaranteed (no duplicate iterations as could be possible in an std::list/std::vector etc...).

**MadCow257** · 03-13-2006

All the surfaces get initialized somewhere, so just pop them onto the array at that time.

You could also use the STL vector instead of an array to save you the dynamic memory trouble

**Muphin** · 03-14-2006

Originally Posted by MadCow257

All the surfaces get initialized somewhere, so just pop them onto the array at that time.

You could also use the STL vector instead of an array to save you the dynamic memory trouble

I remember hearing about that before a while back. I'm having a problem with it though.

I'm running gentoo linux using kdevelop to write my app, and I don't think I have the vector include file. I get errors in the compile, and theres no vector in any include directory afaik.

Is there a place I can download this file?

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