Question about textures and shapes

[MaeZer]

I would like to set the texture of a RectangleShape, but I don't understand how you do it like in the documentation. Can someone tell me how to do it please? I created my texture and rectangleshape but I don't know how you actually set it. My code doesn't seem to work.

sf::Texture rectex;
rectex.loadFromFile("resources/texture");

rectangle.setTexture(rectex);
 

[Hapax]

What doesn't work? What goes wrong?

You should be aware that the texture you're loading here is missing a file extension.

[MaeZer]

Oops I forgot the extension  Corrected it

It says after .setTexture "No suitable conversion function from sf::Texture to const sf::Texture* exists"

[Hapax]

Ah, unlike sf::Sprite's setTexture() which takes a reference to an sf::Texture, sf::RectangleShape's setTexture() takes a pointer to an sf::Texture.

Try:

rectangle.setTexture(&rextex);

Does that fix your problem?

It's actually sf::Shape that takes the pointer and sf::RectangleShape is derived from that.
Not sure why Shape takes a pointer while Sprite takes a reference. For consistency, they should be the same (preferably reference) if possible.

[MaeZer]

Aha, it works perfectly now thanks 

[Hapax]

You're welcome 

[shadowmouse]

Is there any reason why they take it differently, even though the function is used in the same way by the user?

[eXpl0it3r]

Because shapes don't have to have a texture, thus one needs to be able to set it to NULL, while sprites always need a texture.

[Hapax]

That makes sense. It's just confusing that they work differently.