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| Hey All, I am having a issue with BlitzMax. When I compile my program, the compiled version works fine on the system in which it was compiled on (windows vista), but when I try this program on any other windows computer it loads a black screen then exits. Any Ideas? |
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| Missing sounds/graphics/other external files would be the obvious response. |
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| That's about the only general cause there is for these sorts of things. |
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| Missing sounds/graphics/other external files would be the obvious response. You'd be suprised how easy it is to forget these. Had me stumped for hours why it was not working, cos I'd forgot a file. Make sure your code becomes annoying if it cannot find a required file |
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| Hey All, At first I thought i had solved it. I thought all graphics were using incbin, but they were not -- so I distributed the entire graphics folder with the program. It now works on other computers I have blitzmax installed on, but has not worked on the computer I do not have blitzmax installed on (I have no other PC to test). |
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| if anyone wants to try it: http://www.jbclark.org/gemheroes.zip report back if it works or not -- that is the executable and any and or all graphics and or files it could be using. |
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| It sounds like somebody is a sloppy coder and not using error checking, or he would have known instantly the problem ;c) It takes a little more time to add error checking, but it saves a LOT of time when it comes to tracking down bugs. |
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| i'll have to let my programmer know he needs to use better error checking. I know he already has quite a bit of error checking in the code, but it is all for runtime debugging -- nothing for "oops, this file is not there!". |
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| Works fine here |
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| You're paying a programmer who can't make his programs run on other machines? Are you sure you picked the right programmer? :) |
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| Maybe other files like dll's are used that might be missing on other computers? A friend of mine made a mistake once that he used a dll in his BlitzMax program and placed it in the win32 dir because he thought it only works from there. I explained to him that he can best put the needed dll in the same dir/subdir as where his program is, so he won't forget including all needed files. Edit : Tried overhere, doesn't work at all |
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| You're paying a programmer who can't make his programs run on other machines? Maybe that wasn't specified in the contract, LOL. |
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| int works here, but initally with broken graphicx |
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| Tried on my T61 laptop and nothing happens. Is it DX or OGL driver being used? |
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| Works fine here. |
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| Thanks for testing it everyone. I tried several machines and it worked on most, yet it did fail on a few. The few it failed on I downloaded the demo copy of max real quick and tried to compile and it did not compile throwing an error on an iGlass module The error was thrown on this: Local p:Byte Ptr= GlobalAlloc( GMEM_FIXED , Len(txt)+1 ) in this function Function IGL_ClipboardAllocString:Byte Ptr( txt:String ) ?Win32 Local p:Byte Ptr= GlobalAlloc( GMEM_FIXED , Len(txt)+1 ) For Local i:Int=0 Until Len(txt) p[i]=txt[i] Next p[Len(txt)+1]=0 Return p ? EndFunction I do not see GMEM_FIXED referenced anywhere else. |
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| Uhhu.. GMEM_FIXED is possibly internal, what was the error? (unless ofcourse it was that GMEM_FIXED was not found...) |
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| The few it failed on I downloaded the demo copy of max real quick and tried to compile and it did not compile throwing an error on an iGlass module Are you using the correct version of iGlass for the correct version of BMax? |
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| Do you have IGlass? It would be odd to have it but need to download the demo of Bmax. Anyway, demo is 1.12 (I think) and last IGlass I have was changed for 1.20. Anyway, is the program using DX or GL drivers? |
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