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Dark GDK / Tutorial 1 is not compiling

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Yorel
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Posted: 24th Jan 2008 04:37
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I'm trying to work my way through the Dark GDK tutorial #1. Everything works as it should until I add the follwing code:
dbCreateAnimatedSprite ( 1, “animatedsprite.png”, 4, 4, 1 );
dbSprite ( 1, 0, 0, 1 );

The program compiles with the following two errors:
error C2065: '“animatedsprite' : undeclared identifier
C2228: left of '.png”' must have class/struct/union
type is ''unknown-type''
I'm using Visual C++ 2008 Express to compile this code.

Can anyone give me a hint how to get this to run?
based on other posts on this site I added:
#include "stdio.h"

This didn't make any difference.
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axiagame
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Posted: 24th Jan 2008 10:00
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Are you sure all your quotes are placed? the compiler acts as if the first one isn't present or another one is present before your call...
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kBessa
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Posted: 24th Jan 2008 13:39
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I think this has been a problem with some people's keyboard inserting the wrong character. Your string should go between ".

Like this: dbCreateAnimatedSprite ( 1, "animatedsprite.png", 4, 4, 1 );

Not this: dbCreateAnimatedSprite ( 1, “animatedsprite.png”, 4, 4, 1 );

See if it solves your problem.

-Thiago
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Yorel
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Posted: 25th Jan 2008 03:21
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That did it. Thank you. I will pay closer attention to this in the future.
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axiagame
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Yes, I think it should be this, we had the same problem at school when our teacher gave us a part of code written with word 2003 for an Oracle database. Oracle doesn't recongnize the “ and ” characters as double quotes.
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kBessa
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Posted: 25th Jan 2008 05:05
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My clients (at my real life, not games, of course) did have this problem with their website's CMS.

They inserted “ or ” and it was saved on SQL Server (without the application, that I developed, converting them to HTML codes). When rendered in the browser it showed a square, and I'd get phone calls every couple of days (Shame on me, for not converting them to their html counterparts, corrected now).

People always learn the hard (me included).

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-Thiago
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