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Lazy · *Last edited by Lazy; 04-07-2005 at 21:41..*

I never return pointers to local variables, what I did is make the caller pass a pointer to it's own local variable which gets the new string copied into it.

And the only time I convert to backslashes is when I use fopen to check if the file exists or not, but I still have no idea why I'm getting this error.

OR, is hl keeping a pointer to szNewpath when I call PRECACHE_SOUND?
That would explain a lot but I'd assume it makes a copy first.

[Added]
Well, it looks like HL needs a copy of the string.
The problem was solved by changing szNewpath to STRING( ALLOC_STRING( szNewpath ) ).
Bah, I would never keep a string pointer like that.

Thanks PMB, now I can get back to finishing this thing

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Lazy Member Status: Offline Posts: 236 Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Re: [CZ] Changing model directory "on the fly"? - 04-07-2005 I never return pointers to local variables, what I did is make the caller pass a pointer to it's own local variable which gets the new string copied into it. And the only time I convert to backslashes is when I use fopen to check if the file exists or not, but I still have no idea why I'm getting this error. OR, is hl keeping a pointer to szNewpath when I call PRECACHE_SOUND? That would explain a lot but I'd assume it makes a copy first. [Added] Well, it looks like HL needs a copy of the string. The problem was solved by changing szNewpath to STRING( ALLOC_STRING( szNewpath ) ). Bah, I would never keep a string pointer like that. Thanks PMB, now I can get back to finishing this thing Last edited by Lazy; 04-07-2005 at 21:41..