File reading and writing question

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Hi,

I want to read in a text file and place it in an edit box. I know how to use the WINAPI to do this but I would like to use C++ streams.

eg. ifstream fin;

fin.open ( filename, ios::beg );

I then want to place the entire text file into 1 variable so that I can place it into the edit box using SetWindowText

Is this possible. I usually use getline ( fin, string ) to retrieve one line. Is there any way to use a char * or something to get the entire text file into a LPCTSTR.

Thanks a lot

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Hi,

I almost have the solution :

#include <fstream.h>
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
    ifstream fin("c:\\windows\\desktop\\test.txt");

    fin.seekg(0,ios::end);
    int size = fin.tellg();
    fin.seekg(NULL,ios::beg);

    char *buffer = new char[size];

    fin.read(buffer,size);

    std::cout << size << std::endl;

    std::cout << buffer << std::endl;

    std::cout << std::endl;

    delete[] buffer;

    return 0;
}

The only problem here is that the fin.tellg() function returns an invalid amount if there is more than one line eg. if you type :

G
R
E

A
T

It gives you 15 characters - can anyone help?

[Curtis Sutter]

If you are doing WINAPI, why not use a resource file?

eg.
// something.rc  included into project
LEVELS TEXT DISCARDABLE "ResLevels.txt"

// Useage in main
HGLOBAL textlevels;
char *file;

textlevels = LoadResource (_glInstance, FindResource(_glInstance, TEXT("LEVELS"), TEXT("TEXT")));

file = (char*)LockResource(textlevels);

// Don't forget this at the end
FreeResource(textlevels);

// This is actual *working* code from a game of mine.

Curtis