AdvancedSPRITES

Errors when using AdvancedSPRITES

During the devlopment of application that uses AdvancedSPRITES, you may met some problems due to wrong manipulations of the plugin commands. AdvancedSPRITES does not included error messages to keep the highest speed possible during its execution, thus this document can help you to debug your applications.

Windows-type errors :
When an error of this type occured, there is three possible reasons :
- The image used by the sprite does not exist,
- There is a sprite pointer error.

For the first case, take care that the file from which one you create the sprite exists (command DXS CREATE SPRITE), or that the image from which one you create the sprite (command DXS CREATE SPRITE FROM IMAGE) has ever been created.
In the second case, verify that the name of the variable that contains the sprite pointer is the same each time you call a DXS command.

Invisible sprite :
Mainly sprites misconfigurations. in this case, refer to the description of each commande.

Change the screen display mode during the execution of a program disable the sprite created beofre this change. See here for more informations.

Failed to load :
This error may occur at the beginning of the execution of you program. It is an incompatibility of AdvancedSPRITES with your hardware. AdvancedSPRITES has been compiled to work on the largest number of PC possible. But, due to the number of configuration that exists, it is possible that one or more incompatibility subsist. In this case, please contact me (see here) and send me a description of your hardware.


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