you should probably update your tutorial to use current c++ standards -- The information is very very old and many of it obsolete. This makes it pretty difficult for new c++ programmers to weed through the chaff to get to the good stuff.

Hi. I'm writing a pong game which loads and saves a playlist and a configuration file. Both files load properly, but the playlist wont save properly. I think the problem may have to do with the fact that it uses either Win32, openGL, or fmod, but im not sure which. When I write a console application, it runs fine. I use the visual c++ 6.0 standard edition compiler.

this works:

void SaveConfig()
{
ofstream fout("tpong.cfg"); fout << volume <<endl; //volume is an int
fout <<stream<<endl; //stream is a bool
fout <<maxPoints<<endl; //maxPoints is an int
}

this doesn't work:

void SavePlaylist()
{
ofstream fout("tpong.pl");
fout<<numSongs<<endl; //numSongs is an int
fout<<playlist.c_str()<<endl; //playlist is a string
}

both are called on after the other. Changing the order of calling them doesn't have any effect. After the program runs, and these functions are called, "tpong.cfg" is changed while "tpong.pl" isnt.

Any help would be much appreciated.