From: "Damian Yerrick" <mail DOT me DOT at DOT your DOT own DOT risk AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
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Subject: Re: allergo
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:57:58 -0500
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JAB <jab_joe AT my-deja DOT com> wrote in message
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> I've implamented allergo to handle gfx and the mouse, but when I try
> and run my .exe file I get a problem message I put in to tell me that
> set_gfx_mode(GFX_AUTODETECT, VDU_X, VDU_Y, 0, 0) is 0, meaning there is
> a problem. But I don't know why.

set_gfx_mode() returns >= 0 for success and < 0 for failure.

> For my gfx mode set up I'm just doing
>
>   set_color_depth(32);
>   if (set_gfx_mode(GFX_AUTODETECT, 640, 480, 0, 0) != 0)
>   {
>      // Error
>   }
Change it to < 0 and try again.

Oh, BTW, are you sure that your card supports true color?

Damian Yerrick
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