Thread: Dynamicly allocating an array of pointers

I have been having a spot of trouble making a dynamic array of pointers. Sanimation.sprite should be an array of sprite pointers. I am getting an "Incompatible types in assignment" error on the "new_animation->sprite[i] = ..." line. Because theres quite alot of irrelevant stuff I have pasted sniplets that should be enough to explain what I'm doing.

Code:

/* Animation structure */
struct Sanimation
{
    struct Ssprite *sprite; /* Pointer to the array of sprites */
    int count; /* How many sprites in this animation ? */
};   

    new_animation = malloc(sizeof(struct Sanimation));
    new_animation->sprite = malloc(sizeof(struct Ssprite*) * spritecount);

new_animation->sprite[i] = load_sprite(filename,x,y,width,height,x_offset,y_offset);

struct Ssprite* load_sprite(char *file_name, int x, int y, int width, int height, int x_offset, int y_offset)

Thanks

hey look there,

Code:

 struct Ssprite *sprite;

you are declaring just a array of type struct Ssprite not the array of pointer of type struct Ssprite.

and in the bottom of your code

Code:

new_animation->sprite[i] = load_sprite(filename,x,y,width,height,x_offset,y_o  ffset);

struct Ssprite* load_sprite(char *file_name, int x, int y, int width, int height, int x_offset, int y_offset)

u are assiging a pointer to an array of struct Ssprite.which is not correct , the array should be a pointer to pointer of type struct Ssprite

Code:

struct Ssprite *sprite[10];  or **sprite if dynamic memory allocation

s.s.harish

Oh woops. I tried changing it to **Sprite before and I got an error about making a pointer to an integer withought a cast so I assumed I had the wrong idea. After you suggested it I tried it again and realised the error was because I hadn't declared the function at the top, so it defaulted to returning an integer and messed everything up. Anyway its working now Thanks again