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Windows Error message despite no error

Started by bschneid Jan 12, 2007 at 9:21 PM 5 replies 1k views

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Jan 12, 2007 at 9:21 PM

I recently created just a simple application which uses SDL to create a window and render the frame rate to the window using the SFont library. That is all it does at the moment. The program runs fine (after a few hours of noobish hacking), but for some reason every time I close it an error message pops up saying "(program) has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience, " and has the option to send an error report or not - you know the message. My question is what could be causing this to happen? Everything runs until I terminate it, so there really is no error causing my application to close... (running Windows XP)

joanusdmentia

Jan 12, 2007 at 9:23 PM

Perhaps you're trying to delete something twice. Have you tried running it with the debugger?

Ravuya

Jan 12, 2007 at 9:54 PM

Run your application in a debugger and see when it crashes, instead of playing guess and check.

bschneid

Jan 13, 2007 at 11:50 AM

Well, see for some reason when I try to debug it with the dev-c++ debugger I can't add breakpoints, watch variables, backtrace, etc. so its basically useless. After I posted this I went looking for a good debugger, but couldn't find anything. Are there any nice free debuggers on the net?

MaulingMonkey

Jan 13, 2007 at 1:34 PM

I use Visual Studio 2005. The Express Edition, available for free, can be found by googling keywords found in this and the previous sentance.

Colin Jeanne

Jan 13, 2007 at 1:56 PM

I havent used Dev-C++ in a long time but if I recall correctly it uses gdb as a debugger. gdb is a very good debugger. What problems were you having with setting breakpoints and such?

bschneid

Jan 13, 2007 at 10:10 PM

Well I can set breakpoints, but it acts as though they aren't there. It doesn't matter where I put them, it just executes. As far as watching variables, I click on watch variable to add it to the list, and nothing happens. Also, I believe values are shown when you hover over variables, but I had no such luck. The "backtrace" tab shows nothing, and the "output" tab rarely shows anything either. I tried re-installing dev-c++ but it didn't change anything. Could I use gdb by itself outside of the IDE?

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