defining a path in Pocket C

[NYIllustrator]

Ok in order to have a game play a wav file I need to define a path to it in Pocet C. But, I am very bad at how to define a path on the pocket pc because there is nothing like C:/folder...whatever. So lets say the wav file is in a folder called "game" and that folder is in "my documents" folder, what would the exact path be I need to put in?

[Dan East]

\My Documents\game\whatever.wav<br><br>Remember that in C the backslash is the escape character used to indicate non-printing characters, thus you would have to use two backslashes together for it to map to a plain slash:<br><br>"\\My Documents\\game\\whatever.wav"<br><br>Dan East

[NYIllustrator]

Ok I did exactly what you said and when I go to compile it I get this error message..."Error Message: lexical error. (Please make sure source code format is unicode.)" Anybody know what Im doing wrong?

[Moose or Chuck]

It has to be in UNICODE. You can't define paths and stings inline like that. make it: <br>TEXT("\\My Documents\\game\\whatever.wav" )<br>instead of <br>"\\My Documents\\game\\whatever.wav"

[nameless]

I seem to remember being able to use forward slashes (/) and thinking to myself "hmmm...".  Perhaps I am a little confused.

[TBone]

Guys, he's using PocketC. I doubt it has problems with Unicode.<br><br>I think I would try the forums over at orbworks.com, davinci.

[nameless]

Opps.  <br><br>What's PocketC?  Just kidding.<br>How is Pocket C doing now?

[NYIllustrator]

Well I tried posting in the orbworks forum and got no response i also tried putting "wave text(\\path....ect but got a syntax error when I did that, any other ideas? If not Im stuck and cant continue my game arrgghh!

[Moose or Chuck]

Instead of the "TEXT()" idea, try just putting an "L" (no quotes) after the source code that's in quotes. I have no experience with PocketC (well, I do, but not really), but those are ways to make the code UNICODE.

[TBone]

Yeah, but Moose, here's my point: he's using a compiler on the platform it compiles for. Not a real binary, we're talking bytecode here. He shouldn't have to worry about Unicode. That's the whole point of PocketC, is that you don't have to mess with the Win32 API.

[TBone]

davinci, check this out instead. I looked over the WinCE docs portion of the orbworks site, and I think it might help you out.<br><br><br><br>The file will be opened as Unicode/ASCII, but that's transparent to your code. You just need to be able to deal with the stream, its format won't likely matter.<br><br>And for the love of God, now that I think about it, why would he need Unicode to access a path in his program? That's just bloody stupid. Unicode only applies to strings, not relative location.

[NYIllustrator]

I tried it and it still gives me the same exact error message. All Im trying to do is get a button to play a wav sound when pendown on it. Surley someone knows the exact code Im supposed to be putting in as this is a simple operation, unless the code Im using now is the right code and its giving me this error message for no good reason. I cant believe no one on the orbworks board has responded all these programmers on that board and none know how to make a button play a sound when clicked?

[Dan East]

What is the exact syntax you are trying to use? The wave "myfile" example you gave is not valid C syntax, if wave is a function (wave("myfile" )  is correct) .<br><br>Dan East

[Moose or Chuck]

He's using PocketC, not C