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Started by deadalive Jan 9, 2003 at 1:34 PM 8 replies 550+ views

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Jan 9, 2003 at 1:34 PM

Can someone point me towards "the new" windows.h file(s), that have support for ChoosePixelFormat, SetPixelFormat, SwapBuffers.. I really need it and I dont know why its not in with what I already have (the "updated" DevC++4.9.bla beta..) you would think it would be easy to find this, but I just googled for over an hour to no avail. help! -DA

Dave Hunt

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Dave Hunt

Jan 9, 2003 at 4:24 PM

I just downloaded the 4.x version from Bloodshed (http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html)and the functions you are looking for are in the wingdi.h file right where they belong.

deadalive

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deadalive

Jan 10, 2003 at 10:08 PM

hmm thats weird, I can''t compile this demo thats calling those functions, and it had included windows.h, but I got a linker error saying those functions arent there..
maybe I have to #include wingdi.h ???
thanks!
-DA

Lunatic Raven

Jan 10, 2003 at 10:09 PM

Did you link to the appropriate libraries?

Thunder_Hawk

Jan 10, 2003 at 10:17 PM

If you got a linker error then the problem shouldn''t be in the header files but in the libraries you''re linking to (or lack thereof).

deadalive

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deadalive

Jan 11, 2003 at 12:37 AM

Im using this for switches under linker options:
-lmingw32 -lglu32 -lopengl32

I tried -winmm but that didn''t work either..
ohwell its not all that important anyway, I''ll just have to port it to sdl..

Dave Hunt

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Dave Hunt

Jan 11, 2003 at 1:48 AM

They''re in libgdi32.a. (The first clue was the fact that the prototypes were in wingdi.h).

deadalive

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deadalive

Jan 13, 2003 at 11:15 PM

"They''re in libgdi32.a The first clue was the fact that the prototypes were in wingdi.h"

Well my friend you could have mentioned that earlier. I didn''t think there so much mystery to it. I must not have thought I''d have to link with a whole ''nother library just to use these 3 retarded functions that are already functions in other APIs Im using.. damn m$! blea I refuse to, but thanks anyway.

Dave Hunt

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Dave Hunt

Jan 14, 2003 at 12:39 AM

quote:
Original post by deadalive
"They''re in libgdi32.a The first clue was the fact that the prototypes were in wingdi.h"

Well my friend you could have mentioned that earlier. I didn''t think there so much mystery to it. I must not have thought I''d have to link with a whole ''nother library just to use these 3 retarded functions that are already functions in other APIs Im using.. damn m$! blea I refuse to, but thanks anyway.

Pardon me for trying to be helpful. I don''t even use DevC++. I took the time to download the package, install it, and search to make sure everything you needed was included.

Geez!

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