Question

I have a program that generates/’rolls’ two dice. I would like to output these two values to a MessageBox, for example: “Dice Rolled: 1 and 3”.

The problem I am having is how to go about concatenating these integers to the string. The code I have so far is as follows:

MessageBox( NULL,                  // hWnd      - window owner (none)
            L"Dice:",              // lpText    - text for message box
            L"Dice rolled:",       // lpCaption - title for message box
            MB_OK |                // uType     - make ok box
            MB_ICONEXCLAMATION);

What would be the best way to go about doing this?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The problem is that C really doesn’t support strings as a data type, so you will need to simulate strings using character arrays. For example:

int die1, die2; /* need to be set somehow */
wchar_t dice[100];

wsprintf(dice, L"Dice: %d and %d", die1, die2);
MessageBox(NULL, dice, L"Dice Rolled:", MB_OK | MB_ICONEXCLAMATION);