Re: OpenGl again.
- Posted by "C. K. Lester" <cklester at TICNET.COM> Apr 14, 1999
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Your are exploring unknown frontier, my friend... keep going! IOW, I can't help you, but I'm interested in your results. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Martin <twilight at WCC.NET> To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU> Date: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 3:40 PM Subject: Re: OpenGl again. >Hello again, > >Well I hate replying to my own E-mails, but I've only got one other reply. >I was wondering if I stumped everyone or does nobody care? I hoping it more >that I stumped everone, but if it is because nobody cares then I need to >know that I'm wasting my time. > >Thanks >Paul Martin > > >At 11:53 AM 4/8/99 -0500, you wrote: >>Hello everyone. >> >>If any of you have read my previous postings you'll know that I'm working >>on wrappers for OpenGL/GLUT. OpenGL is a 3D graphics API and GLUT is >>similar to Win32lib, except designed for OpenGL. You can find out more from >><www.opengl.org>. I have for the last four weeks been pulling my hair out >>trying to get it to work. I've been plagued by one problem that I >>absolutely can not track down, because windows returns an encryptic error >>message that does not point to any place in my program. I believe the >>problem may lie in GLUT and the callbacks, but I cannot be sure. >> >>I was hoping a few of you would mind downloading what I have, taking a look >>at it, and see what you can come up with. I really wanted to get this to >>work on my own, but I'm missing some critical piece of the puzzle. >> >>So far GLUT opens a window, clears it and then bombs with the error message: >> >>>EXW caused an invalid page fault in >>>module EXW.EXE at 023f:00405053. >>>Registers: >>>EAX=00000000 CS=023f EIP=00405053 EFLGS=00210216 >>>EBX=0000000f SS=0247 ESP=0056fb88 EBP=00000654 >>>ECX=00000000 DS=0247 ESI=005806fc FS=420f >>>EDX=00000000 ES=0247 EDI=0056fba2 GS=0000 >>>Bytes at CS:EIP: >>>8b 55 76 81 e2 ff 00 00 00 89 45 72 83 fa 04 75 >>>Stack dump: >>>000001f6 0058040c 00000000 00000001 00000200 000001f6 00000201 00f30247 >>00000200 000001f6 0058040c 00000002 00000202 00f30247 00ec0000 00000040 >> >> and then >> >>>EXW caused an invalid page fault in >>>module <unknown> at 0000:0b75fc5d. >>>Registers: >>>EAX=bff87fc0 CS=023f EIP=0b75fc5d EFLGS=00210246 >>>EBX=bff87fc0 SS=0247 ESP=005600f8 EBP=00560118 >>>ECX=0056019c DS=0247 ESI=81760af0 FS=420f >>>EDX=bff76859 ES=0247 EDI=00560290 GS=0000 >>>Bytes at CS:EIP: >>> >>>Stack dump: >>>bff7684d 00560290 bff87fc0 005601c4 0056019c 0056057c bff76859 bff87fc0 >>005601ac bff87fc0 00560290 bff87fc0 005601c4 0056019c 0b75fc5d 00560304 >> >>This means apparently I'm passing a bad value to GLUT. I've run a trace on >>the program and it occurs when it's in glutMainLoop() which is C procedure. >> >>If you are willing to take a look you will need Euphoria 2.1, because it >>requires multiple callbacks. You will also need the Mesa dll's. I have >>posted the wrappers (56k) at >><http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Campus/8684/Cube.zip>. I have >>provided two demo programs cube.exw and simple.exw, both return with the >>same errors. The Mesa dll's (352k) can be download here >><http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Campus/8684/mesa3dll.zip>. DO NOT >>put them in your windows\system directory, make a new directory elsewhere, >>and put them there. Mesa is not 100% OpenGL compliant so if you overwrite >>the ones in your windows\system directory other programs may break. If you >>want more documentation on Opengl and GLUT you can visit <www.opengl.org>. >>I've also include the C programs that I used for the demos, and the >>libraries for OpenGL/GLUT. >> >>You will probably need to edit the sequence "prefix" in each of the >>libraries (glu.ew, glut2.ew, and opengl3.ew), to tell it where you placed >>the Mesa dll's. Other than that they should run (sorta). >> >>Even if you are not successful at figuring out what's wrong, I'd also >>appreciate any feedback. >> >>Thanks >>Paul Martin >> >> >