Thread: Variables in win32

In a tetris game, I am just preparing it. I made an unsigned int for the score. I want to know how I would display the amount of "score" into a message box or Dialog. Preferably Message. Thanks.

Hmm... I am doing it in C++. That looks like C... I tried doing it like this:

Code:

 MessageBox (NULL, " #1: "<<score<<"", "Scores", MB_OK);

But it didn't work..

You cannot utilize this functionality "<<" in your MessageBox. This is a stream class overload type thingy, and so you must use traditional C syntax. No worries, though. C++ IS C!

Ok, then im not good with C. How would i display the score in my Message Box then? Here is what i have so far for it:

(note: just snippets)

Code:

unsigned int score = 0;
char string [80];

//and below....

case IDC_BUTTON4:
MessageBox(NULL, " #1 - \n #2 - \n #3 -", "Hi-Scores", MB_OK);
break;

You might do:

sprintf(buff, " The High Score Is %i", score);

Then MessageBox buff...

Clarification:

You don't use the sprintf() to print out the result on the screen, just converting the int into a string.

Or for those of us who detest MFC:

Code:

char messageBuffer[WHATEVER_SIZE];
snprintf(messageBuffer, sizeof(messageBuffer), "High Score: %d", m_highScore);
MessageBox(hWnd, messageBuffer, "Score", MB_OK);