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Graphics / ImageManager

« on: March 27, 2008, 11:42:16 pm »

Thanks a ton. I was doing it with new/delete because I got fed up with googling static pointers. This way looks better though, so I will implement it.

PS: Stop making it look so easy for us beginners! :wink:

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Graphics / ImageManager

« on: March 27, 2008, 10:46:53 am »

Sorry, I figured that only applied to when using new/delete to allocate space. I'll have to research more on the subject of static pointers. If it's not too much trouble, could you possibly give an example of this?

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Graphics / ImageManager

« on: March 27, 2008, 09:03:02 am »

I have a similar problem. My implementation of an image manager uses a std::map to ensure resources aren't loaded twice:

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std::map<std::string, sf::Image> g_Image;

void CEntity::SetImage(const std::string &filename) {
    std::map<std::string, sf::Image>::iterator it = g_Image.find(filename);

    if (it == g_Image.end()) {
        sf::Image image;

        image.LoadFromFile(filename);

        it = g_Image.insert(it, std::pair<std::string, sf::Image>(filename, image));
    }

    m_Sprite.SetImage(it->second);
}

The code works as intended when all entity objects are created before the sf::RenderWindow. However, I hope to create entity objects while in the main loop of my application (after the window has been created). The problem with that is SFML is unloading before the sf::Image destructors are executed. Can anyone tell me how to work around this? Thanks in advance!


Full source code available here.