Hi all,

I'm imagining this is a very simple problem, but I seems to be unable to solve it despite many hours trawling the net and various tutorials.

Basically, I have a class file sepearate from Game1 but in the same namspace and I want to load some content, but all I get is the error above.

I've tried various ways of referencing the content, contentManager.Load, Game.Content.Load etc... etc... but they all just give errors.

Could someone please tell me what I am doing wrong and how I can load content outside of the Game1 class??

Thanks in advance for the help. The code for the class is currently as follows:

using System;

using System.IO;

using System.Text;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using Microsoft.Xna.Framework;

using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Audio;

using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content;

using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GamerServices;

using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics;

using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input;

using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Net;

using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Storage;

namespace SinsoftheFounders

class WorldGenerator

{

private landScape[ landScapes;

public dungeon[ dungeons;

 public WorldGenerator(string lsfFile)

public struct landScape

{

private int width;

private int height;

private Texture2D heightMap;

private string name;

private string textureSet;

public landScape(int height, int width, string heightMap, string name, string textureSet)

this.width = width;

this.height = height;

this.heightMap = Content.Load<Texture2D>(heightMap);  Here is the problem line!!!

this.name = name;

this.textureSet = textureSet;

public struct dungeon

{

private int width;

private int height;

public dungeon(int height, int width)

this.width = width;

this.height = height;

private void parseLSFfile(string lsfFile)

string[ fileLines = FileReaderUtil.SplitFileByLine(lsfFile);

int areaNumber = fileLines.Length;

for(int index = 0; index < fileLines.Length; index++)

string[ items = fileLines[index].Trim().Split(',');

landScapes = new landScape[fileLines.Length];

landScapes[index] = new landScape(Convert.ToInt32(items[2]), Convert.ToInt32(items[3]), items[4], items[0], items[1]);

class WorldGenerator

{

     public content As ContentManager;

    public WorldGenerator(Game game, ....
 

content = new ContentManager(game.Services, "Content");

and either pass the game object reference on to the other objects that need it or the content manager reference.

Thanks for the speedy reply,

I see what you are saying,

WorldGenerator is currently called in the Game1 Initialise method with the line,

world = new WorldGenerator("C:\\Visual Studio 2005\\Projects\\SinsoftheFounders\\SinsoftheFounders\\Content\\World lsf\\Path1.lsf");

I've added the Game game to the worldGenerator constructor but am having trouble passing the reference to the Game object in this line - any advice??

Kilanirax:

WorldGenerator is currently called in the Game1 Initialise method with the line,

world = new WorldGenerator("C:\\Visual Studio 2005\\Projects\\SinsoftheFounders\\SinsoftheFounders\\Content\\World lsf\\Path1.lsf");

I hope that's not how you're planning on keeping that. Hardcoding a path is a no-no. :)

Using Application.StartupPath is probably better

Jim Perry:

I hope that's not how you're planning on keeping that. Hardcoding a path is a no-no. :)

Using Application.StartupPath is probably better

Or StorageContainer.TitleLocation, which will work on Xbox and Zune as well.