Hello all,

I'm trying to build a PD method for this SDL function:

SDL_Surface *IMG_Load(const char *file);

problem is I can't figure out how to pass the symbol argument as a filename which IMG_Load expects. Here is my current method:

void load_images(mystruct *x, t_symbol* image1_src, t_symbol* image2_src) { /* Symbol pointer stuff */

image1 = IMG_Load( (char *) image1_src ); if (image1_src == NULL) { post("Image 1 could not be opened"); } image2 = IMG_Load( (char *) image2_src ); if (image2_src == NULL) { post("Image 2 could not be opened"); } SDL_Flip(screen); } Which results in a segfault. I tried it without typecasting but gcc just complains that its the wrong pointer type.

class_addmethod(myclass, (t_method)load_images, gensym("open"), A_DEFSYM, A_DEFSYM, 0);

I also tried using argv and atom_getsymbol() with the same pointer-type porblem.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks Ben

B. Bogart ---------