stayscrisp, on 15 June 2013 - 06:07 PM, said:

No I have not, but I'm not sure that will help me. I bought a book for game programming in c++ and it came with a cd with all the codes from the book. When I copy and paste in the code from the cd it does the same thing. This is very confusing to me, in theory there should not be a problem. The lesson before this one (in my book) worked great and ran perfectly. Not sure if this has any bearing on the situation but I am using Visual Studio 2010 Express, the DXSDK June 10 download, and the windows operating system, shouldn't but hey I am very new to graphics for games and I'm runnoing many possibilities.

Delacar, on 13 June 2013 - 02:23 PM, said:

nope, same problem.

ButchDean, on 13 June 2013 - 01:30 PM, said:

I believe it was debug, when it was changed to release I got this error code:

..\..\..\..\..\..\Jesse's\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\bitmap\bitmap\main.cpp(3): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'd3dx9.h': No such file or directory

maybe I forgot to change something while linking it, I check that firsts. Thanks for that question to point my mind in a new direction. />

ButchDean, on 13 June 2013 - 10:23 AM, said:

I'm not sure what your question is, like I said it compiles properly (I think) but the program just shuts down before I can see it. Here is the output codes that come up after I compile and run the program.

'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Users\Jesse's\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\bitmap\Debug\bitmap.exe', Symbols loaded.
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\kernel32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\KernelBase.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\d3d9.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msvcrt.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sechost.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rpcrt4.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sspicli.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cryptbase.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\user32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\gdi32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\lpk.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\usp10.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\advapi32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\version.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\d3d8thk.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\dwmapi.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\D3DX9_43.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msvcp100d.dll', Symbols loaded.
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msvcr100d.dll', Symbols loaded.
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\imm32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msctf.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\ProgramData\Wincert\win32cert.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Unloaded 'C:\ProgramData\Wincert\win32cert.dll'
The thread 'Win32 Thread' (0xf68) has exited with code 1579358290 (0x5e231852).
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\uxtheme.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ole32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\igdumdx32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\igdumd32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\powrprof.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\setupapi.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cfgmgr32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\oleaut32.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
'bitmap.exe': Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\devobj.dll', Cannot find or open the PDB file
The thread 'Win32 Thread' (0x1300) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread 'Win32 Thread' (0x15c4) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread 'Win32 Thread' (0x824) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread 'Win32 Thread' (0x674) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The program '[3380] bitmap.exe: Native' has exited with code 0 (0x0).

hope this will help clear up any questions on my previous post.

Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to change the whole background with out using system (color). Also I would like to know use this

void setcolor(unsigned short color)
{
    HANDLE hcon = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hcon,color);
}

without changing the background color. If any one can tell me that would be great.