Strings and windows

Create a variable called tmp. Like char tmp[256]; for instance. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's:

_ltoa(tmp, fps, 10);

That will place fps as a string in tmp. You could always use sprintf if you need extra info in there.

For the output, try a Sleep(15000); or something.

The wsprintf() function works like printf() but copies text into a string buffer instead of sending it to default output. Then you can use all the standard printf() formatting.

TCHAR szTempString[50];

wsprintf(szTempString, " %i frames per second", fps)
MessageBox(hwnd, szTempString, NULL, NULL);

the wsprintf() function is also unicode friendly if you're bracing for Windows 2000.

never use a sleep to see your output. use

while(!kbhit()){}

kbhit is in conio.h

Josh

It compilse and runs fine, but teh number showed is nowhere NEAR the actual fps...

int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,
HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
LPSTR lpCmdLine,
int nCmdShow)
{


double fps;
double testnum;

unsigned long framecounter = 0;

double totaltime = 0;
long curtime = 0;

MessageBox(NULL, "To start click OK and wait 10 seconds.", "Windows Benchmark",MB_OK);

long starttime = GetTickCount();

while(curtime < 10000)
{
for(int res = 0; res < 65536; res++)
{
testnum = sqrt(2);
}

curtime = GetTickCount() - starttime;
framecounter++;
}

totaltime = (GetTickCount() - starttime)/1000;
fps = framecounter/totaltime;

TCHAR szTempString[50];

wsprintf(szTempString, " %i", fps);
MessageBox(NULL, szTempString, "Windows Benchmark, FPS:",MB_OK);

return 0;
}

The %i indicates that an interger follows. In true C style, they don't care what the acual data type is, you can either cast

(int) fps

or use %d instead of %i to indicate a double precision fp number.

If you do a google or altavista search on printf() you should be able to get a good list of how to format everything.

%d is for decimal integer

%f is typically used for double and floating-point.

"%04.1f" is one example that gives you 1 decimal point to the right of the decimal

Keeb

DOH!

I gotta stop smokin' that crack.