DevIL Load image

bool success = ilLoadImage(Filename.c_str());

... doesn't work?

Also, it should be something like:

if(ilLoadImage(Filename.c_str()) == IL_FALSE){   // Failure!}else{   // Success!}

alright i'll try that, but no.. it's not working.. i'm getting a fatal error at that line that says what i have in the first post

what's weird about it is i worked once, then i left it alone for the day (i keep my computer on and VS.net 2003 was still open), then i came back to it and it gave that error; i didn't change anything...

If you try it with a different compiler do you get the same result?

If you're using VS 2005 remember that ILstring is a typedef for wchar_t*. You might check to see if your compiler has UNICODE defined or not. Also you might want to do a check like
if(Filename.data()) or if(Filename.size()) to make sure there is data in the string since it appears you have a null pointer somewhere.

You might also try passing the string by reference, at the very least you get a performance gain by just passing a 32bit pointer rather then creating an entirely new string.

hope this helps...