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Dark GDK / dbOpenToWrite() *always* fails

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wtfsven
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Posted: 8th Oct 2011 01:12 Edited at: 8th Oct 2011 13:36
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I'm trying to store some numbers in a file, but I'm having a strange problem: dbOpenToWrite() literally NEVER opens the file. Even something like this...

9: //...
10: dbOpenToWrite(1,"data.dat");
11: if (!dbFileOpen(1)) dbPrint("Failed");
12: //...

...will print "Failed" to the screen. What gives? Is there some sort of prerequisite to writing to a file I'm missing?

EDIT: Solved. If the file exists, dbOpenToWrite() will fail.

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Hawkblood
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Posted: 8th Oct 2011 05:48
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If the file already exists, I think it will fail.

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Mr Bigglesworth
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Posted: 8th Oct 2011 05:51
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You should just use <fstream>

I have always had a much better success using it rather than GDK's built in system.
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wtfsven
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Posted: 8th Oct 2011 13:34
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Hawk, you're right; I just figured that out a few hours ago. I had no idea, since that completely contradicts the documentation.
Mr. Bigglesworth, I would, but this is a school project. I have to use the library provided. :/

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Red Eye
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Quote: " I would, but this is a school project. I have to use the library provided. :/
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If it is a good teacher it would give you a better mark, considering fstream is a native c++ implementation, and it is way cleaner.
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Hawkblood
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Quote: "If it is a good teacher it would give you a better mark, considering fstream is a native c++ implementation, and it is way cleaner."

Implimetation of fstream might not be the best to accomplish certain tasks such as writing a memblock to a file. In that case it's best to use the DGDK stuff.

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Diggsey
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Posted: 9th Oct 2011 13:04
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It still is. Simply use dbGetMemblockPtr and you can write it to the file in one line (just make sure you opened it in binary mode).

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Hawkblood
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Good to know.

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Michael P
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Yeah there is no time where using DGDK's file commands is a good idea, they are basically a bad wrapper for fstream anyway.

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Morcilla
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dbOpenToWrite used to work here, maybe it is dbFileOpen the one that isn't working...
Oh I read now that edit in the 1st post, so it works after all

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jason p sage
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I agree - but I ran into a problem that is severely crippling me at the moment - when I use any REAL C++ library fstream, vector whatever.. because all I have is a DarkGDK lib released in "Release Mode" , if I'm trying to use "Debug Mode" all of a sudden I get tons of linker errors about the libcrt file or whatever.. I found on these forums (some where) that is because the code I'm running in debug mode is using one version of libcrt (called libcrtd I think for debug) while DarkGDK uses libcrt (release mode version)...

So just be prepared for this gotcha - maybe latest version has both debug and release libs distributed (which would solve) I don't know.

Good Luck!

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