Why isn't this SFML C++ code working ?

Question

#include "StdAfx.h"
 #include "SplashScreen.h"
 #include "Game.h"


 void SplashScreen::Show(sf::RenderWindow & renderWindow)
 {
   sf::Image image;
   if(image.loadFromFile("images/SplashScreen.png") != true)
   {
     return;
   }

   sf::Sprite sprite(image);

   renderWindow.draw(sprite);
  renderWindow.display();

   sf::Event event;
   while(true)
   {
     while(renderWindow.pollEvent(event))
     {
      if(event.type == sf::Event::EventType::KeyPressed 
        || event.type == sf::Event::EventType::MouseButtonPressed
         || event.type == sf::Event::EventType::Closed )
       {
         return;
      }
     }
 }
}

where it says "" sf::Sprite sprite(image); "" the image in the brackets is underlined and comes up with the error - no instance of constructor matches the argument list

Any help ?

Answer 1

sf::Sprite doesn't take a sf::Image as constructor but a sf::Texture . Use a sf::Texture instead of a sf::Image and it should work.

So your code to initialize Sprite shoud be something like:

sf::Texture texture;
if(texture.loadFromFile("images/SplashScreen.png") != true)
{
    return;
}
sf::Sprite sprite(texture);