Var - Char array in Allegro ?

[SublicK]

Hmmmm......

How do you convert a string into a char array?

I need to use a string in a function that only takes chars....

eg:

(Allegro Code)

string VarString = "BlahBlah"
textout(screen,font,VarString,X,Y,C);


but the textout function only allows chars...... hmmm

How do I change the VarString into a char?

[oskilian]

in my allegro docs, it says that the TextOut function is like this:

void textout(BITMAP* bmp, FONT* f, unsigned char* s, int x, int y, int color);

so it uses char's, why are you using strings anyway?

Oskilian

[Nick]

void textout(BITMAP* bmp, FONT* f, unsigned char* s, int x, int y, int color);

Are you sure that's not a const char* s. If it's const you can do
VarString.c_str(). Another possibility would be to over ride it with an inline version, so you have

void textout(BITMAP* bmp, FONT* f, string& s, int x, int y, int color)
which then calls the real textout.