String problems

[JerryTheBig]

Hi
I have a big problem with string things
Firstly, I am not able to load a few pics to an array because this thing:

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array[i].SetSurface( std::wstring(L"Sprites\\temple\\t%d.bmp",i),D3DCOLOR_XRGB(255, 0, 255));

hates me, It is in the code. Please help me.
Secondly, could anybody tell me something about strings in c++. I am absolutely lost.
In c# I used only string s = "sth"; and that was all everything was string. (Perfect method ToString() made everything easier). And now. Somethimes I saw char something[]. Thats ok. Just an array of characters. But the work with it is horrible for me. In Jesse Liberty's book anout c++ is written that printf is horible thing. Better use cout<<.
Chili use a my nightmare above. I am not able to load a single sprite using wstring with parameters like %d,%char and put variable i after them.
Everything is in the code.
If you suggest better way. Ok but I want to know why it does not work and if is there some magic quide or somtehing about this problem then send me a reference.
Thanks a lot

[LuX]

Works for me anyway. Dunno, I'm used to use WCHAR* instead of going always for the std lib. Never liked sexually transmitted diseases anyway.

[Nek]

Works for me anyway. Dunno, I'm used to use WCHAR* instead of going always for the std lib. Never liked sexually transmitted diseases anyway.

oh good, i'm not the only one that thinks of this when i type it in.

[JerryTheBig]

Can you help me solve this problem using wchar*? I am stuck. I cant continue without loading images

[joelyboy94]

Most things you do with character arrays can be done with wide strings. For formatting strings you can use

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wchar_t a[100];
swprintf( a,100, L"image name = %s,image number = %d",L"harry",12);

Just use L in front of a string to declare it a a wide string.

See here http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdlib/ for the conversion functions (Multibyte strings section)
See here http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cwchar/ for standard wide string functions.

Hope that helps.

[JerryTheBig]

Thanks a lot. It works.

[LuX]

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wchar_t a[100];
swprintf( a,100, L"image name = %s,image number = %d",L"harry",12);

Yes, but I think swprintf will give some warnings, not the end of the world, but it should be safer to use swprintf_s, which is the same but you don't have to input the array size.

[joelyboy94]

Yeah good point, that's something I've been meaning to do for while, but I've just been doing compiler warning disables for those.. not good I know haha.