[Gardon]

What about the st upid:

such and such.exe has encountered an error and needs to close. Tell Microsoft about this problem!

[RuneLancer]

I'm guessing you're trying to delete something that was never created in the first place?
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[Gardon]

Ok now it won't even compile because it gives me the windows errors on execution (I take that back, it does compile but won't run)

I figure once I find out once and for all what's causing this I can stop asking these questions.

Basically all I did was change the bitmap I was loading and it didn't work. the path and everything was good, but it wouldn't start. Then when I put the old bitmap in it still doesn't work.

(when i say put in I mean that I swapped the file names I input via the program)

Take a look...here!

Thanks,

Jason

[Gardon]

Ok this is friggen queer. It seems to be that the bitmap will only accept file names of "Images/m.bmp". Why woudl this be? Why can't I put in any other name for it? It's only accepting m.bmp, and nothing else.

Stupid

[LeoDraco]

Hey Gardon: have you attempted to run your program through a debugger? They are these tools that, at runtime, allow you to evaluate program flow and state; more so than any other tool concept you could possible grok, becoming one with your debugger is of paramount importance. MSVC comes embedded with a debugger, and invoking it is rather simple. (Seriously: in VS.NET, one must type "Ctrl-F5" to compile and run a program outside of the debugger; simply hitting "F5" causes the program to be run in the debugger; I seem to recall VC6 being similar.)

I know it may seem easier to simply ask others about these things, but knowing your debugger --- what it can do for you --- would resolve most of the issues you are currently experiencing.
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[DrunkenCoder]

[tunginobi]

Yeah, we all like to swear at software now and again. Doesn't really help in the development process though.

By taking the now now now attitude you have at the moment, you're only going to frustrate yourself more and more until you give up and try again (or not).

Before you go any further, you do understand the concept of pointers, don't you? Just judging by your last couple of problems, I suspect you may be throwing around the address-of and dereference operators (not to mention class instances) wherever you see them in an example, without taking the time out to understand what's going on under the surface.

You do understand pointers, don't you?

[RuneLancer]

Indeed, you seem to be running into a lot of problems where it seems like you're unsure what you're doing.

It might be worth considering to slow down a bit and understand fully what you're doing before moving on. You'll find that when you have a clear idea of what your code does (ie, what gets initialized/deinitialized where, etc) the only problems you should run into would involve things you haven't learned yet. Any other problem can be solved spending a good dozen minutes alone with the built-in debugger to try and figure out what goes on behind the scenes.

Don't worry, it's perfectly normal for even a simple project to take months to complete. I've been writing code for Endless Saga for the equivalent of three months (if you factor in the fact I often can't work on it more than a few hours a week and also took a few months off because my appartment burned down) and am nowhere being done. And believe me, frustrating bugs come up often, but they're nothing to worry about once you're comfortable with the debugger.

So... y'know... it's good that you're not letting pride get in the way and can ask for help, but you should give debugging a shot beforehand (by which I mean using a debugger to track down the problem.)
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