adding new line to string literal

[rossig]

Hello, sorry if it was asked before, but I tryed everything and it didn't work.
No new line inserted, the whole line in a row is dislayed instead.
The string must be passed as a const char * parameter to a function.

I intended: string s = "hello \n word!"

SO: Ubuntu 12.04
gcc versión 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)

Thanks and regards.

rossig

[Moschops]

#include <string>
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
  std::string s = "hello \n world!";
  std::cout << s << std::endl;
}

Works fine for me. http://ideone.com/1bJaE

[vlad from moscow]

Show the code of the function.

[rossig]

Hi thank for your reply, it didn't work for me, this is the code:

string s = "To begin the game press SPACE";
cout << s << endl;
s += "Good luck!";

message = TTF_RenderText_Solid(font, s.c_str(), textColor );

I want to display:

To begin the game press SPACE
Good luck!

Here's the header of the function where I render the text:

SDL_Surface *TTF_RenderText_Solid(TTF_Font *font, const char *text, SDL_Color fg)

thanks

[vlad from moscow]

You did not show your code so it is not clear what is the problem. If to consider the code from your previous message then it is simply to do what you want

string s = "Hello world";

s += '\n';
s += "here we go";
cout << s << endl;

And it would be more simply to initialize the string with the complete phrase

string s = "Hello world\nhere we go";

cout << s << endl;

[rossig]

Sorry, it was a delay between I re edited my post and your response.

I did what you suggested, it didn't work though. Maybe it has to do with the funtion I mentioned before:
SDL_Surface *TTF_RenderText_Solid

here's the "conflictive" part of my code:

 string s = "Hello world\nhere we go";
  cout << s << endl;

  mainscreen->apply_surface(0,0, mainscreen->getBackground(), mainscreen->getScreen());

  message = TTF_RenderText_Solid(font, s.c_str(), textColor );
  
  if (message == NULL)
  {
            SDL_FreeSurface(message);
            message = NULL;
  }

  mainscreen->apply_surface(280, 140, message, mainscreen->getScreen());

  SDL_UpdateRect(mainscreen->getScreen(), 0, 0, 0, 0);

thanks

[rossig]

Hello, the code all of you suggested works :), but not with SDL the render text function, wich doesn't recognize new lines. Here was the issue.

So, thanks so much four your help, I learnt something new.

Regards

rossig