Drawing integers to the screen in SDL

[Bullet Pulse]

I have been working on an SDL Pickin' Sticks game, and the only thing I can't figure out is how to write the number of sticks picked up to the screen.
I'm not sure if I have to use a different function, convert the integer to a string, or what.

Thanks

[GroundUpEngine]

Yo, just use the C style 'sprintf' ->

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string sticks_picked;

char temp[16];
sprintf(temp, "Score: ( %i )", player.score);
sticks_picked += temp;

..
Render_Text(sticks_picked);

[Bullet Pulse]

Yo, just use the C style 'sprintf' ->

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string sticks_picked;

char temp[16];
sprintf(temp, "Score: ( %i )", player.score);
sticks_picked += temp;

..
Render_Text(sticks_picked);

Hmm. When I added that code, it just repeats Score: (0) across my screen, and then after about 10 seconds, it all disappears and doesn't come back up.

Edit: Okay, I fixed it. It should be

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sticks_picked = temp;

[GroundUpEngine]

Sweet!

[K-Bal]

You should take a look at stringstreams if you are using C++.

[Falco Girgis]

You should take a look at stringstreams if you are using C++.

Yeah. The way you're doing it now with sprintf() is the C-style. Not that it really matters, but if you want to take the object oriented C++ route, you probably should have a look at string streams.

[Live-Dimension]

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std::string Utilities::NumberToString(float number)
	{
		std::stringstream out;
		out << number;
		return out.str();
	}
std::string Utilities::NumberToString(int number)
	{
		std::stringstream out;
		out << number;
		return out.str();
	}
std::string Utilities::NumberToString(double number)
	{
		std::stringstream out;
		out << number;
		return out.str();
	}

Yes, I could probably use generics, but I don't want to try and add a string or "ship" class by mistake. I'd rather the compiler complain to me. Come to think of it, wouldn't the compiler complain if it wasn't something stringstream couldn't take?