Do this (no error checking):
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DATA mydata; // your structure
HANDLE hFile;
DWORD dwBytesRead;

// open the file
hFile = CreateFile("MYDATA.DAT", GENERIC_READ,
0, (LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES)NULL, OPEN_EXISTING,
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, (HANDLE)NULL);

// fill in data struct
ReadFile(hFile, &mydata, sizeof(DATA, &dwBytesRead, NULL);
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You can then access your data structure by doing:
mydata.health and mydata.size

Heathen

Need a little help with the mmio functions. If I have a struct defined as thus:

typedef struct DATA {
int health;
int size;
};

and I use mmioOpen to open a file, how do I read it in right to the struct? Do I do this:

mmioRead(HMMIO waveHandle, DATA dataMember, sizeof(data));

If that is right, can I access the parts of a DATA struct like this:

dataMember.health = 100;

or something like that, or do I have to do something else to get the dataMember file ready to access?

I realize that mmio is mostly for things like .wav files, I'm just trying to simplify things.

Thanks,

Zachary