SFML and std::cout

[cheesesteak]

Good evening everybody!

I just started reading "SFML Game Development". So far I like both the book and SFML! I have one question, though:

Whenever I program in C++ and something doesn't work, I print the involved values using std::cout. I noticed that this doesn't work with SFML:

if (!this->mTexture.loadFromFile("res/plane.png"))
{
        std::cout << "Texture plane.png couldn't be loaded.";
}

When I intentionally remove plane.png, recompile the program and then run it in terminal mode, I only get to see SMFL's error message, not my string.

Is it generally impossible to use std::cout in combination with SFML? If so, what can be used alternatively?

Thank you!

[FRex]

You need to output std::flush to std::cout to see anything.

[Laurent]

Or std::endl, which is more commonly used since people usually want to terminate their messages with a line break

[cheesesteak]

You need to output std::flush to std::cout to see anything.

Thank you very much, that worked!

Or std::endl, which is more commonly used since people usually want to terminate their messages with a line break

Thank you, too. Normally I use std::endl. If I had done so this time, this question would not have been necessary! However, std::endl works because it calls std::flush implicitly. Thanks to both of you!

[dabbertorres]

You could also use std::cerr, which, is what this (error reporting) is meant for.

This a case of buffered (cout) vs unbuffered (cerr) output if I'm not mistaken.