Integer to sf::Text

[Raidenkk]

I want to put an integer on my screen. Can somebody explain me, how i do it?

[Laurent]

-> Integer to string (Google)
-> string to sf::Text (text.setString)

[Zefz]

Both of these functions can be used to convert Integer to a String (using SFML data types). Both solutions should be cross-platform and compiler friendly.

#include <sstream>
using namespace std;

String toString(Int64 integer)
{
    ostringstream os;
    os << integer;
    return os.str();
}
 

#include <string>
using namespace std;

String toString(Int32 integer)
{
    char numstr[10]; // enough to hold all numbers up to 32-bits
    sprintf(numstr, "%i", integer);
    return numstr;
}
 

As Laurent mentioned above, you could then do something like this:

Text myText;
Int32 myInteger = 1000;
myText.setString( toString(myInteger) );
 

[Laurent]

Instead of the old unsafe C code, you should mention the new C++11 to_string function

[Zefz]

Ah true. Thanks for reminding me I guess I'm still not used to all the fancy new stuff c++11 supports. Assuming you are compiling with the latest C++11 standard then you should definitively use to_string (defined in <string>):

Text myText;
Int32 myInteger = 1000;
myText.setString(to_string(myInteger));
 

[Zefz]

Doing some more research into std::to_string() and I found out that it is not fully supported on Windows by MinGW because of a bug (Bug 52015)

This bug was last confirmed 2012-02-27 in GCC 4.6.1 (I can confirm this myself my MinGW compiler does not find any deceleration of std::to_string()). So I guess you have to use one of my previous solutions until this bug is fixed.