Basic window setup

[Stonemonkey]

I'm trying to re organise things in my code a bit and thought this may (or may not) be useful. It's the basic window and gfx buffer setup I'm using based on Jims code. It's been modified quite a bit though and if anyone that knows any better thinks that something could/should be done differently I'd be grateful of any input.

You'll need to create an empty win32 project and put these files into it (I think they're all there).

[Jim]

Looks OK to me

I see one tiny bug

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        if (!GetMessage(&msg, fetch_project()->window, 0, 0))
            break;

should be

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        if (GetMessage(&msg, fetch_project()->window, 0, 0)>0)
            break;

since GetMessage returns < 0 on error, 0 for exit, and > 0 for success.  I can't imagine any situation where that would happen on a stable system though.

Jim

[Stonemonkey]

Heh, cheers Jim. I am surprised that's all tbh. I'll fix that and uplaod again.

EDIT: sorted.

[Jim]

Might be more in there, but the structure looks OK, which is far more important.
Jim

[Stonemonkey]

Yeah, I hadn't expected you'd gone through it all but if that's about the worst that stands out I'll be quite happy.

[Shockwave]

Thanks for posting K+

[Stonemonkey]

Hmmm. Jim, I've just been looking back at something and made the change you suggested and now the windows aren't working at all right, they can't be dragged, the buttons don't work and I don't get feedback from the mouse. Should it have been:

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if (GetMessage(&msg, fetch_project()->window, 0, 0)<0)
            break;


as that appears to get everything working.

EDIT:
Sorry to anyone trying to run that code as it would've just given a blank screen

[ninogenio]

strange i use GetMessage()>0 in my code and it works fine although i use NULL where you youse fetch_project is the fetch project window needed?

edit sorry just went through your code, you do things diffrent to me so maybe < 0 is more correct in your case.

[Jim]

Should be <=.  Just check the docs for GetMessage.  It returns 0 when WM_QUIT comes through and -ve on error.  So just "if (GetMessage())" isn't right, but then again, I got the check wrong too

Jim

[Stonemonkey]

Thanks Jim.

[Paul]

That gfx mode doesn't work on my pc
anything i could do to make it work?

[Stonemonkey]

Hi paul, what's happening exactly? are the results the same whether it's fullscreen or windowed?

stonemonkey.

[Paul]

hehe. I most have had more than 1 tab going, I was supposed to post that in Shockwaves 32b topic
sry

[Stonemonkey]

lol, no problem.

Fryer.