cant create D3D textures - LPCSTR problem

[aatwo]

Hey guys. I am trying to create some textures with D3D however I can't get it to work. It keeps failing to initialise the textures :(

How can I store a string like this...

char *myTexture = "filepath_of_my_texture.jpg";

... so it can be used to initialise a D3D texture like this...

HRESULT result = D3DXCreateTextureFromFile(&d3dManager->getDevice(), myTexture, &D3D_Texture_Pointer);

Here is the prototype for the D3D create texture function used above...

HRESULT D3DXCreateTextureFromFile(
__in LPDIRECT3DDEVICE9 pDevice,
__in LPCTSTR pSrcFile,
__out LPDIRECT3DTEXTURE9 *ppTexture
);

Thanks in advance :)

[savavampir]

It depends on your compiler/project settings if is set to use unicode. Use:

#include <tchar.h>
...
TCHAR* myTexture = _T("filepath_of_my_texture.jpg");
HRESULT result = D3DXCreateTextureFromFile(&d3dManager->getDevice(), myTexture, &D3D_Texture_Pointer);

or append A to end of function with char* as your file name:

D3DXCreateTextureFromFileA(...);