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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 17:52:26 -0700
From: Rudy Gingles <spy AT oregoncoast DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Why wont this work?? - Allegro
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Jamie Love wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to get the mode selection of the allegro gfx library to work
> (and the mouse) but i cannot seem to get it to work. The code follows but
> it seems to do everything up to the showing of the gui selection function
> and then stops. A have to ctrl-break out of it. (i'm linking alright as i
> don't get any compile/link errors)
> 
> #include <allegro.h>
> 
> main()
>  {
>    int *card=0, *w=0, *h=0
> 
>    allegro_init();
> 
>    install_timer();
> 
>    if(install_mouse() < 0)
>      return(1);
> 
>    if(set_gfx_mode(GFX_VGA, 320, 200, 0, 0) < 0)
>      return(1);
> 
>    show_mouse(screen);
> 
>    gfx_mode_select(card, w, h); //stops here
>  }
> 
> Please help, it worked earlier today, it doesn't seem to want to now.
> 
> I'm also running this under rhide which is running under Win95
> --
> J Love
> jamie DOT love AT clear DOT net DOT nz

What if you tried defining card, w, and h as regular variables (not
pointers) and call gfx_mode_select() like this:

gfx_mode_select(&card, &w, &h);


Rudy