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General => Feature requests => Topic started by: kingcools on December 27, 2013, 01:56:42 pm

Title: sf::image constructor that allows to initialize an imagefile
Post by: kingcools on December 27, 2013, 01:56:42 pm

hi,

just stumbled upon this, is there a reason there is no

sf::image(std::string filename)
{
loadImage(filename);
}

constructor in the sf::image class? Would be nice to have in my opinion.

Title: Re: sf::image constructor that allows to initialize an imagefile
Post by: Nexus on December 27, 2013, 02:36:20 pm

Yes, such a constructor has two disadvantages:

• It is less expressive and possibly ambiguous (consider sf::Shader which can be loaded from a file or from a string), thus one should consider the named constructor idiom.
• SFML 2 doesn't use exceptions, so there is no way to report errors.