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Dark GDK / No Wizards in Visual C++ Express

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Atlantic Dreamer
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I wanted to pick up programming after 15 years. SO I downloaded and installed Visual C++ Express and Dark GDK.

Now I want to get started, but when I want to create a new project there are no Dark GDK wizards. Anyones knows if I can install them seperately

Thnx
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Mike Johnson
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Posted: 20th Nov 2007 17:59
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It will be useful to know the following:

What operating system are you using?

Are you logged in with full admin rights?

Can you check you Visual Studio 2008 folder in My Documents e.g. C:\Documents and Settings\Mike\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008. Do you see a folder named Dark GDK and one named Wizards?

Did the installer correctly update Visual Studio to link into the include and library directories for Dark GDK?
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Atlantic Dreamer
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I am using XP Pro SP2

I installed in this order:
downloaded the Visual Express ISO file and installed C++
downloaded the DX9 Aug 2007 SDK and installed it
downloaded the Dark GDK and installed it

I have full admin rights

Both folders you mention are not installed

Both include and library directories are linked as pointed out in the Installation Guide

Hope you can help me
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Freddy 007
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Posted: 20th Nov 2007 18:38 Edited at: 20th Nov 2007 18:50
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Right now I'm having the exact same problem. Only the include and library directories are NOT linked.

I'm running Vista Home Premium.

EDIT:

I found out that the folders (Wizards and Dark GDK) were installed to the wrong directory, so I moved them to the right one. Then I manually linked to the DGDK directories. Now the Wizards appeared in the New Project menu, so I tried to see if I could compile a DGDK project, but the compiler returned this error:

Quote: "c:program filesthe game creatorsdark gdkincludedarksdkcamera.h(16) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'd3dx9.h': No such file or directory"


I'm not sure what to do about that :/

EDIT 2:

Nevermind, I just found out that this problem is described in the Installation guide

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Mike Johnson
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Atlantic Dreamer, can you go to the directory where GDK is installed and go into the tools folder e.g. C:\Program Files\The Game Creators\Dark GDK\Tools. Run Wizards.exe. Now go back to the My Documents folder and look in the Visual Studio 2008 folder. Do you see the Wizards and Dark GDK folder in here?

Freddy 007, where did your wizard files get installed to? It may well be that something changed in the final version of VC and we may have to update our installer. Pleased to hear you got it working anyway. Looks like a few more people might be relying on the installation guide. We tried to make it as easy as possible by trying to automate everything so it's unfortunate a few people have been affected by things not being so smooth.
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Atlantic Dreamer
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I found the Wizard files. They were in:
C:\Program Files\The Game Creators\Dark GDK\Wizards\
I copied them to:
C:\Documents and Settings\Sander\Mijn documenten\Visual Studio 2008\Wizards

Now I can see the Wizards in Visual C++ Express, but when I try to create a new project e.g. Dark GDK - 2D Game, I get the following error:

Default.js or default.vbs not found in C:\Documents and Settings\Sander\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Dark GDK\Dark GDK - 2D Game\Dark GDK - 2D Game\Scripts\1033\default.js

Which could be correct since the file is located in:

C:\Documents and Settings\Sander\Mijn Documenten\Visual Studio 2008\Wizards\Projects\Dark GDK - 2D Game\Dark GDK - 2D Game\Scripts\1033\default.js
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Same as Atlantic Dreamer

AMD Athlon64 X2 4600 / 2 GH Ram / Geforce 6800 Ultra / WinXP Home SP2 / DX 9.c
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Mike Johnson
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The installer will attempt to copy those files from Program Files into My Documents. Not certain why it has failed on your installations.

Inside Wizards\Files for your GDK installation you will see 9 files. They need to be copying into My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Wizards. Next you will see the project files in Wizards\Projects. What you need to do is link the files you copied into My Documents to these files. To do this open the 3 VSZ files in My Documents and look for the line that say "Param="ABSOLUTE_PATH"". Set this to the location where the solution files are e.g. Param="ABSOLUTE_PATH = C:\Documents and Settings\Mike\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\Dark GDK - 2D Game\Dark GDK - 2D Game" You will now be able to use the templates correctly.
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Why the heck does GDK go looking in a user folder called "mike"?

I though the whole idea is the installshield wizard was designed to query the windows library system.user.profile(mydocuments) classes, to generate all localized installation paths...?

Did you not compile this software using Visual Studio?

I can create folders to fit, but it would be nice if you fixed this for the next release

I don't wanna work. I just wanna bang on my drum all day.

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Mike Johnson
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Rigel, the installer will use the default files but then it should overwrite information with your own username etc. For some reason a few people have been affected and this hasn't happened correctly. I'm going to look into it and try and find out what is going on.
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Quote: "Rigel, the installer will use the default files but then it should overwrite information with your own username etc. For some reason a few people have been affected and this hasn't happened correctly. I'm going to look into it and try and find out what is going on."


I have moved My documents folder to another drive (e:\) and the files have been put in the normal location (c:\documents and settings\... etc). Maybe this is the problem that is affecting other people too.
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I have the same problem. I've done everything you wrote about in this topic and still it says Default.js or default.vbs not found in C:\Documents and Settings\Mirek\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Dark GDK\Dark GDK - 2D Game\Dark GDK - 2D Game\Scripts\1033\default.js.
There is no default.vbs in that folder thought. Could someone help ?
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IT happened to me to!!!
I fixed it though.
Uninstall it and reinstall it make sure you have full administrator rights. If you don't, do not install it on an administrator screen. You won't be able to axcess it.
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Quote: "I have moved My documents folder to another drive (e:\) and the files have been put in the normal location (c:\documents and settings\... etc). Maybe this is the problem that is affecting other people too."


Oh... Is that it? My documents are on my secondary hard drive. HD:0 is my operating drive C:\, and HD:1 is my data drive. D:\

My documents are located in D:\My Computer\My Documents

I don't wanna work. I just wanna bang on my drum all day.

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Benjamin 123
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I don't have the VZS files...Please help me
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