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Hi Krylar,

You'll hear from Lulu but just thought I'd let others know who are thinking of ordering the book: A couple of days after ordering I received this email from Lulu.com -

It has come to our attention that your order 7650236 cannot be completed because the source files for the project ...

Finally got it working. I had to install OpenGL (sudo apt-get install freeglut3 freeglut3-dev) and also install NVIDIA drivers.

Ok, some progress. After installing the libsdl package ("sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev") I no longer get those error messages, instead I get "the debugged executable quit unexpectedly" when running this code:


If InitSprite() = 0 Or OpenScreen(640, 480, 16, "Test") = 0
MessageRequester ...

I'm using Xubuntu 12.04 and am getting errors when using InitSprite() -

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -IGL
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -IGLU

In the manual, it says that "This function tries to initialize SDL, so if it fails, it's probably because the SDL library is not found or is a previous version (1.2 ...

cool, thanks Krylar!

Hi Krylar,

I was looking at your site for the book (http://www.krylarskreations.com/pb_book.html) and see that there is a chapter on DirectX. Since my preferred OS is Linux, I was wondering how Windows-centric is the book with regard to game programming? I know there are other libraries for Mac ...

Thanks for the update, Krylar. I'm one of those who would be interested in a hardcopy version of the book. Not sure whether you're aware of it, but might I suggest lulu.com ?

Very easy to use, you just upload the PDF of the book, make a few choices with regard to size, hardback/paperback etc, then ...

When running two separate programs from the IDE, after closing them both I get a segfault (using Ver 4.61).

Looking forward to this. Thanks for updating, Krylar.

As there doesn't seem to be a cross-platform form designer, I was thinking of buying PureVision for creating forms on Windows (in VirtualBox), then switching to Linux for coding the "under the hood" stuff. On the PureVision site, it says one of the features is Select Windows or Linux Compliant Code ...

When using the AESEncoder, the manual says to compile in ascii mode. Since I can't find any such option in the compiler options I assume this is the default and if I don't want ascii I would check the "create Unicode executable" box?

Thanks.

Didn't notice that. I know - RTFM.

Thanks infratec! you guys are awesome.

Just wondering why you made the OutBufferSize 1.4*FileSize, is that % increase recommended for this type of encoding?

I want to encode a text file and have been looking at the pb cipher options. Base64Encoder() seems the most appropriate, but I'm not sure how to go about using it as the example given in the manual is only for a fragment of text. Suppose I have a file "myfile.txt". How do I encode the file in one go ...

Thanks deeproot.