From: SPAMGUARDriker AT pipcom DOT com (Matt Riker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Allegro Datafiles - More Problems
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 01:12:15 -0500
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Leave it to me to run into more problems :)  First problem, is when I 
try and substitute a datafile object with a variable.  Example:

   draw_sprite(screen,datafile[spritename].dat,16,16);

spritename is a char with a 20 character array, containing "BLANK".  I 
get this error when compiling:

Error: array subscript is not an integer

Second problem: having 2 datafiles opened at the same time.  Having a 
datafile already opened seems to cause the second one to return 1.  My 
two DATAFILE declarations are different.  My code to open the second 
datafile is below:

{
   strcpy(get_filename(buf), "c:/maped/testspr.dat");
   user_datafile = load_datafile(buf);
   if (!user_datafile) {
      allegro_exit();
      printf("Error loading TESTSPR.DAT!\n\n");
      return 1;
   }
}

I *believe* that the problem is due to there already being a datafile 
open, but am not positive.  The datafile is not corrupt, and it's header 
is correct and in-place.

Any help on either of these would be greatly appreciated; thanks!

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