Irrlicht Engine

I get this same issue. The gui controls dont even pick up the keyboard input. Does starting irrlicht in this manner requre us to set exclusive keyboard access to the app or something? is there something internally done in createDevice that isnt done in createDeviceEx?

how about this...
how about this...

int main()
{
// create irrlicht


HWND wnd = GetConsoleWindow();
ShowWindow(wnd, SW_HIDE);

// run irrlicht stuff
}


I think GetConsoleWindow was a part of windows.h but not sure off hand.

create your Irrlicht render window as a child of the main window. I thought this was a bug also, until I took a closer look at the windows tutorial.

Allright, I just tried doing a simple hello world app, and apparently its my visual studio, and not anything to do with irrlicht. Thanks for the help everyone.

I tried to redistribute some release mode demos I made with Irrlicht and an error came up on every computer Ive tried it on. I included the exe built in release mode, the assets, and the .dll file. When I run it on my PC it works fine, but on other PCs an error message comes up saying The ...