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I'm a newbie too but I think you have to directly access the datafile in the
draw_sprite function. ie. draw_sprite(bmp, data[skater001].dat,0,0);
Mike.

Amin Kharchi wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I'm new in Allegro and C. I wanted to draw a sprite to the Screen, the
> sprite is a BMP in the .dat-file. And I have generated a header with the
> tool dat.exe.
>
> Now I have tried to draw the sprite/bitmap with draw_sprite(), but it
> failed. The error is "cannot convert type DATAFILE to type BITMAP". But how
> can I do this???
>
> Here is my listing (it's small :-):
> #include <allegro.h>
> #include "skater.h"
>
> int main()
> {
>  allegro_init();        // Init and Screenmode
>  set_color_depth(8);
>  set_gfx_mode(GFX_VESA1,640,480,0,0);
>  BITMAP *bmp = create_bitmap(640,480); // bmp is virtual-screen
>
>  char file[11]="skater.dat";
>  DATAFILE *data;
>  BITMAP *sprite;
>  data = load_datafile(file);    // Load datafile with BMP's
>
>  clear(bmp);
>  sprite = data[skater001]; // Sprite skater001 is defined in skater.h
>  draw_sprite(bmp,sprite,0,0); // This function want a BITMAP*!
>
>  blit(bmp,screen,0,0,0,0,320,200);
>  getch();
> }
>
> I don't know how to do it else. Or is it totaly false???
>
> Thanx for your help!
>
> Amin
> PS: I'm german - sorry for my english ;-)