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instinkt900

January 06, 2005, 08:27 AM

I've had a look around, and a lot of places tell me how to release the d3d object and other direct x elements, but I can not figure out how to drop back to the desktop to display a message box, and have the app quit. All I get is a message box appearing in front of my now blank screen, and once I click 'OK' it usually freezes.

This is the code I have,

  1.  
  2. void GameWindow::ExitWithAlert(const char* fmt, ...)
  3. {
  4.         static char lpszAlertBuffer[XALINEBUFSIZE];
  5.  
  6.         m_kScreen.Kill();
  7.  
  8.         va_list ap;
  9.         va_start(ap,fmt);
  10.         vsprintf(lpszAlertBuffer,fmt,ap);
  11.         va_end(ap);
  12.  
  13.         MessageBox(NULL,lpszAlertBuffer,"ExitWithAlert()",MB_OK);
  14.  
  15.         //PostQuitMessage(1);
  16.         exit(1);
  17. }
  18.  


I changed from PostQuitMessage to exit because m_kScreen.Kill() releases the d3ddevice and the d3d object, and then the app continues on until the quit message is interpreted, and this causes problems between these areas.

I don't really intend on leaving the exit in there, I'm hoping for a more elegant way of quitting.
 
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