Newb in DDRAW HELL

first of all you have made a direct draw program whit directx4

and i dont think you use directx4 (well i hope) and the header file for direct draw are either ddraw.h or d3d8.h

ddraw.h is the header for directx 7 and under and d3d8 is for directx 8 soo hope i help you

Kevin

DirectDraw4 is the version included with DirectX6.

You have to add dxguid.lib to your project as well.

Just hope it helps,


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Also just before you include the header files you will need to define INITGUID. Something like:

#define INITGUID
#include <ddraw.h>

The INITGUID, will fix the the type of problem you have. As long as you are doing everything else right . Hope this helps (and that I am right for once) .

Here''s is another hint of a possible problem. I programmed a bit today and had a BIG head ache over this problem:

DO NOT #define INITGUID more than ONCE in a project. It will define functions more than once and you will get tons of link errors. To keep it simple, you''re better off linking dxguid and not #define unless you fully understand what''s going on when you #define INITGUID (even inside the dx headers).

-This is an answer to a possible future headache you might have if you try implementing two DirectX API''s in one project later down the road.

"Ogun''s Laughter Is No Joke!!!" - Ogun Kills On The Right, A Nigerian Poem.

Or you could of course do this to prevent INITGUID being defined more than once:

#ifndef INITGUID
#define INITGUID
#endif

Do this everywhere you want to define INITGUID and it will only define it once.