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Dark GDK / Hello world tutorial

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Slim420
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Posted: 16th Mar 2009 02:35
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Hello, I have just installed Dark GDK and was going through the first tutorial and i encountered a problem right away :S .

The first initial run works fine, but when i add the fist bit of code, to where my program looks like this:



but when i debug and run it, it just gives me a blank screen. No build errors, or debug errors, but the image doesnt load, and my whole computer lags very bad to the point my mouse freezes every couple of spaces.

Can anyone help me out please?

Thanks.
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vocebello
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Posted: 16th Mar 2009 08:05
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Your code runs fine with me.

Is your computer capable of running DarkGDK? Minimum system requirements are here http://gdk.thegamecreators.com/?f=system_requirements.

I can't see any other reason why it would not work?

[ freelance DarkGDK coder ]
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Slim420
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Thank you for your response. Actually i had not checked the prerequisites, just the dependent software. I guess i was just so used to everything working that i hadnt needed to check system requirements :S . The only requisite that i am short of is my graphics card, its only 64mB (where as the minimum req's are 128).

However, before i got this reply i had uninstalled the DX SDK, and Dark GDK and reinstalled both. Now i have a slight lag (maybe 3 seconds, longer if anything else is any graphics memory) when i first run the program until the image loads. So hopefully whatever complication that was stopping it from loading before and almost freezing my whole system, has been addressed . I havent gone any further in the tutorial to see if im going to have graphics card issues in the future, but for now everything seems good to go, im going on to the next step now....

Wish me luck

Thanks for your reply
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six pack will
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I was following the tutorial exactly and when I debugged it said

c:\documents and settings\doug\my documents\visual studio 2008\projects\hello world1\hello world1\main.cpp(6) : error C2065: '“animatedsprite1' : undeclared identifier
c:\documents and settings\doug\my documents\visual studio 2008\projects\hello world1\hello world1\main.cpp(6) : error C2228: left of '.png”' must have class/struct/union
type is ''unknown-type''
What went wrong and what should I change?
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Bruce Dudeson
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Change “animatedsprite.png” to "animatedsprite.png" when copying from the pdf you get instead “”of "" your char * should show up with red syntax highlighting.
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six pack will
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Thank you so much it finally works.I really am thankful of your help.
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