From:	mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: datafile question
Date:	24 Jul 1997 19:25:16 GMT
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Vic (tudor AT cam DOT org) wrote:
: I want to add textures but I don't know how. Considering these textures
: will be in a DAT file (allegro), is there any way to load something
: from  a datafile not using the index number? Like, if I add textures, I
: will write something like ground_texture or ground.pcx etc. How can I
: load the picture knowing this name and not the index number? 
: (I thought about using the defines in the header of the datafile but
: this name is read of the disk at runtime so that doesn't help)

You could use the load_datafile_object function (q.v. in the info or text
documentation for Allegro) - this might be a WIP function though, I'm not
entirely sure. Its prototype is:

DATAFILE *load_datafile_object(char *filename, char *objectname);

It loads a single object from the datafile, provided you did not strip the
object names. See the docs for full information.

Other than this, you could read in the header file as a text file and get
the indices from there, or you could store an object reference at the
start of each texture. But since the WIP provides this function, which is
ideal for what you want, I would download the WIP and use it.

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George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford
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