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TKF15H
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Posted: 19th Sep 2004 10:30
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I'm working on a plugin, which under certain conditions will cause a DBP program to just dissapear magically. No error message, it just closes. This has happend to me before quite alot, anybody know what could cause this? Anybody having the same problem?

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IanM
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Posted: 19th Sep 2004 10:40
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This happens to me whenever I forget to force the inclusion of a DBPro DLL that my code depends upon, or sometimes when I use an uninitialised pointer.

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TKF15H
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Posted: 20th Sep 2004 11:07
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The funny (not laughing though) thing is that when I call the same functions from C++ as a stand-alone executable instead of a plugin, everything runs fine.

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Posted: 20th Sep 2004 14:09
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I've experienced this too, but have gone to the lowest level of debugging to find the cause of it. It happens to be the stack. When DBP calls your command it pushes all the variables on to the stack, but since it performs a call instruction you'll get the return stored on top of that plus an extra item on the stack from the base pointer being saved when your function starts. Your return back to the main program code plus dbp's popping those variables off the stack after the return doesn't clear all those items stored on the stack.

There are a few different cases with this, but it all ends up in the same result, after a few do..loop cycles the stack is completely corrupted and your program exits. This reply was most likely confusing, but it's one of the major reasons why a plugin case cause an exit like that.

P.S. Another issue was the same one IanM stated.
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TKF15H
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Posted: 21st Sep 2004 01:26
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how do you debug a plugin?

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It depends on your IDE - you can find several methods here : http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=27222&b=8&p=1

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Posted: 21st Sep 2004 07:44
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I use Ollydbg for debugging everything.
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TKF15H
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Posted: 21st Sep 2004 22:20
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I just found out what I was doing wrong in this case.
All I'll say is that it involves two DBP instalations.

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