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Allegro help with []'s - Jotz - 02-16-2005 I need to create several bitmaps in Allegro, but declaring all of them seperately would take forever. How could I use the []'s in bitmap pointers? Example: DIM pic[256] AS BITMAP ptr It comes up with an error because of the []'s. I have seen them used in the starfields demo for allegro. How could I use those? Allegro help with []'s - adosorken - 02-16-2005 Might wanna try using () instead of []. [] has another purpose in FB. You can't directly port C code to FB. Allegro help with []'s - v3cz0r - 02-16-2005 []'s are only used for pointer indexing, () should be used to declare and access arrays, array[idx] is a shortcut for *(array + idx). Allegro help with []'s - BastetFurry - 02-16-2005 Quote:[]'s are only used for pointer indexing, () should be used to declare and access arrays, array[idx] is a shortcut for *(array + idx). If i understand you right i can declare the following: dim shared somestring as string ptr and retrive singel chars out of it thne c way? eg.: sometring[4] = mid$(somestring,4,1) So Long, The Werelion! Allegro help with []'s - v3cz0r - 02-16-2005 Nope, STRING is actually a descriptor, [] will access the descriptor, not the data, but you could do: Code: dim shared somestring as byte ptr |