Yup, C/C++ gives you all the rope you could ever want, the rest is up
to you. :-)
Curt.
David Luff writes:
> That's how they are in soundmgr.hxx (they're two different functions - one
> is passing in an FGSimpleSound pointer to the sound manager and the other
> the file name.)
>
> I've found the proper answer to my problem now - I was doing:
>
> FGSimpleSound simple("temp01.wav");
> globals->get_soundmgr()->add(&simple, refname);
>
> which doesn't work, whereas the following does work:
>
> FGSimpleSound* simple = new FGSimpleSound("temp01.wav");
> globals->get_soundmgr()->add(simple, refname);
>
> In my initial case, when simple went out of scope when my function
> returned, this must have been leaving the sound manager with no
> FGSimpleSound, and causing the fatal error. Thus no compile time error,
> but it wouldn't work.
>
> I guess I need to chant "A POINTER IS NOT THE SAME AS A REFERENCE" or
> possibly "THE STACK IS NOT THE SAME AS THE HEAP" a couple of thousand
> times!
>
> Given that I also got bitten by the
>
> char* str = "Hello";
>
> is not the same as
>
> char str[] = "Hello";
>
> business a few days ago, I feel like I've been slapped repeatedly around
> the head with a giant cod with C/C++ written on it!!
>
> Cheers - Dave
>
>
>
>
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