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Dark GDK / [DGDK 2.0] Why does this crash?

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Hawkblood
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Posted: 12th Jul 2012 16:18
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I have tried several versions of how to use the pointer given by dbGetPixelsPointer ( ); and still the same problem. I checked the value in *p and it looks like a pointer-- it's a large number.

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Posted: 12th Jul 2012 16:24 Edited at: 12th Jul 2012 16:29
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The returned pointer is probably to a char (byte) array.
When you're converting it to an int pointer pointer arithmetics will have it so that p + (i * 4) will refer to the i * 4:th pixel; I believe you want to step through each byte rather than do that. Still, you most likely should have more than 400 pixels locked so I don't really see why it should crash.
Does it give any particular error message / can you use the stack trace to find something out?

Edit: Just tried the following which runs just fine for me:



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Posted: 12th Jul 2012 16:35
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No error from the compiler or GDK. I get a "... has stopped working." message from windows.

The i*4 part is because each color has 4 bytes to it. The +1 is so it will only write to the red part of the pixil (I think 1 is red....--I know 1 is not the alpha).

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Posted: 12th Jul 2012 18:09
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Have you tried compiling it in debug mode?
It should break rather than outright crash if you do.

And as I said the +4 only works if you have a byte pointer, otherwise it will bypass 4 instances of the elements that is pointed towards - in your case 4 32-bit integers, meaning you will only address every fourth pixel.


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Posted: 12th Jul 2012 19:59 Edited at: 12th Jul 2012 20:00
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Here are the errors I'm getting:

I got a different one some time earlier, but I wasn't able to get a screenshot--It said I had an access violation at the same spot for as in the second image.....

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Aha, what you're doing there is actually just retrieving a pointer to a (single) integer that contains the sought pointer.
In other words p isn't the pixel pointer itself but rather it points to 4 (or maybe 8 if you're on a 64-bit machine) bytes that in turn contains the address of the pixel pointer. (That sounds confusing even as I'm writing it, I hope you get what I mean though, might be easier illustrated with a picture rather than words )

To actually access the pointer you must cast the returned int to a pointer of some kind (I'd recommend a char or BYTE pointer as you likely want to access bytes; you can use a int32_t pointer if you like as well, and then access each full pixel (4 channels) at a time).


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Put it in code please. I think I know what you are saying, but I've tried every way I can imagine to reference the pointer with no luck.

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You already have it in my snippet up in the second post.
The thing of interrest is this:



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THAT'S IT!!!!!

For the life of me I couldn't get that to work. Why didn't TGC/Mistrel have it return a char* instead of a int????

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Because the underlying DarkBASIC function returns an int and most of the wrapper functions in DGDK 2 are automatically generated by following a simple generic template function and looking at the string table of the native dll's.
There are a few functions in there where this auto-wrapper has failed and I've had to manually edit a letter so the cases are correct etc, as well as quite a few 3d math functions not returning a value(!).

I suspect it will be manually reviewed before the official version is released though.


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Quote: "There are a few functions in there where this auto-wrapper has failed and I've had to manually edit a letter so the cases are correct etc, as well as quite a few 3d math functions not returning a value(!).
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Could that be why dbCreateImageFromMemblock (..) isn't working?

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Quote: "There are a few functions in there where this auto-wrapper has failed and I've had to manually edit a letter so the cases are correct etc, as well as quite a few 3d math functions not returning a value(!)."


Could you please point these out for Mistrel so that we all can benefit from your findings. Thanks very much!


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