I've have a class function below (using fstream) for my game that I had working on Visual C++ 2008. When I tried to port my app to xcode, I found it compiled, but complained that the directory doesn’t exist.
Believe me, the directory exists. I've checked and rechecked! Basically this class scans a script file and sets values to my game entities.
I use it like this:
CEntity::script( “fuzzybunny.txt” );I expect it to load the fuzzybunny.txt file, but instead, it logs an error into my log file like this:
ERROR: could not parse script file: data/scripts/fuzzybunny.txt"Why would it do that? It reads the file fine when compiling under VC 2008? I haven’t made any code changes since I ported it to xcode, this is strait c++, there shouldn’t be anything concerning portability.
This is the function:
bool CEntity::script( std::string talkfile )
{
std::string file;
std::string add = "data/scripts/";
file = add + talkfile;
std::fstream filescript( file.c_str(), std::ios::in );
//If the script couldn't be loaded
if( filescript == NULL )
{
Log("\nERROR: could not parse script file: %s\n", file.c_str());
return false;
}
//some things... What were parsing the file for
std::string line;
std::string search;
//search the file
while(!filescript.eof())
{
std::getline(filescript, line);
if( "health" == line.substr(0, line.find(' ')) )
{
search = line.substr(7, line.size());
istringstream myStream(search); //convert string to int
myStream >> health;
}
}
filescript.close();
return true;
}Another thing to note, is if I change the beginning of the function to something like this…
bool CEntity::script( std::string talkfile )
{
std::string file;
file = "data/scripts/fuzzybunny.txt";
std::fstream filescript( file.c_str(), std::ios::in );
…etcNow it seems to load the fuzzybunny.txt script file… Proving that my directory is right, but making me wonder why it didn’t work the other way around? I also get no Log errors when I do this... Anyone have any ideas why it does this?
