PocketMatrix

We are going through the same learning curve you & I. I'm using string table resources & making similar mistakes.

I guess the answer is in what you are trying to pass the resource item to. It wants an int ponter & you are giving it a char pointer & the conversion won't work.

After trying everything I could think of to solve my loadstring issue I went looking through the supplied sample projects & on examining one discovered that what I thought was a bug with the way I was defining a string was actually to do with the way I was defining the length of the string.

If you have not solved this yet let me know & I will duplicate & assist

Not yet, no matter what I do it just crashes....

I'm looking into the diffs between the Player_Load and Player_LoadFP.... too see what the diffs are etc.

-Brendan

I see the problem. Player_Load only supports reading from an actual file. I can think of two solutions. First, you can dump the resource to a temp file, then have MikMod load that file. It would only take a couple lines of code to implement that, and you could delete the file after you are done playing the mod. The other is to take a deeper look at the MikMod library, and either modify it to load directly from a resource, or see if you can pass it a raw chunk of memory and load from that stream instead of opening a file stream. The latter is what you are actually trying to do if you use the last suggestion I posted.

Dan East

don't like the temp idea, as files tend to hang around if program crashes.... Might have to look at the load code... or just say "stuff it", and supply files sepratly.... as files... (only problem with that is makes it easy for others to hack around with program....

-Brendan