[absoluT88]

I have recently been playing around with SDL and trying to get the hang of it, but have found something recently that bugs me a lot when testing for errors in my code. I found the function

SDL_Error()

, however I can't figure out how to receive the information that returns. So, for now I am kind of lost on how to test for errors besides returning bools or values and ending the program. Is there someway to easily create another console for

printf 

or

cout

statements?

Thank you.


P.S. The error I'm having right now is that

SDL_LoadBMP("Filename")

is remaining NULL. I assume it is not finding the file somehow, but I am not 100% sure. I have remade the file a couple times, saved as different .bmp formats and also checked the code.

Here is my load function, temp remains NULL and I can't figure it out:

SDL_Surface* Sprite::Load(char* File)
{
	SDL_Surface* temp = NULL;
	SDL_Surface* optimized = NULL;

	temp = SDL_LoadBMP(File);

	if(temp == NULL)
	{
		printf(SDL_GetError());
		return NULL;
	}
	
	optimized = SDL_DisplayFormatAlpha(temp);
	SDL_FreeSurface(temp);

	return optimized;
}

Thank you!

[stayscrisp]

You can add these lines to your code:

freopen( "CON", "wt", stdout );
freopen( "CON", "wt", stderr );

[absoluT88]

Thank you stayscrisp, that is exactly a simple output solution I was looking for. And, also thank you for your SDL tutorials which I am following to learn.

I actually just figured out my problem... Somehow I had

int main(int argc, char* argv)

instead of

int main(int argc, char** argv)

and I was getting an access violation without an error.

[stayscrisp]

Yeah, you can write it like this:

int main(int argc, char *argv[])

Or like you have done.