WinMain() Troubles

[AlexL]

I've just started up a mini-project with Irrlicht, and I've run into some problems when it comes to running the .exe created. I'm using MSVC++ 6.0 SP5 with the DX9a SDK, and alot of the code I'm using is based off of the TechDemo.
Now onto the problem, when I run the .exe from the compile nothing will happen. I'm guessing that is because I don't have a function called inside of WinMain to start up Irrlicht, though when I've tried to call my function to start it - RBGame::run() - I get compile errors. I've posted some of the code below, if any one could help this would be greatly appericiated.

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int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInst, HINSTANCE, LPSTR strCmdLine, INT)
{
	video::EDriverType driverType = video::EDT_DIRECTX9;
	return 0;
}

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class RBGame : public IEventReceiver
{
public:
	void run();
};

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void RBGame::run()
{
	IrrlichtDevice* device = createDevice(video::EDT_DIRECTX9, dimension2d<s32>(800,600), 16, false, true, 0);
	video::IVideoDriver* driver = device -> getVideoDriver();
	scene::ISceneManager* smgr = device -> getSceneManager();
	gui::IGUIEnvironment* guienv = device -> getGUIEnvironment();

	//--------------------------------------------------
	// Device Setup
	//--------------------------------------------------
	device -> setWindowCaption(L"Mini-Project - v0.1");

	//--------------------------------------------------
	// Interface Setup
	//--------------------------------------------------
	//Some of my code

	//--------------------------------------------------
	// Render Loop
	//--------------------------------------------------
	while(device->run())
	{
		driver -> beginScene(true, true, SColor(100,100,100,100));
		smgr -> drawAll();
		guienv -> drawAll();
		driver -> endScene();
	}
	device -> drop();
}

[Arudil]

erm yes
without calling the function.. the function won't be called.. or something like that..

you should declare an instance of RBGame, an then call the run function.

this could be ~like~ that (i didn't compile it or check for bugs )


int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInst, HINSTANCE, LPSTR strCmdLine, INT)
{
video::EDriverType driverType = video::EDT_DIRECTX9;

RBGame gameInstance;
gameInstance::run();

return 0;
}


..if anybody says, that this code is wrong, and absolutly crap and that i don't know a bit about c++: you're right :p

[Gonosz]

Actually, it's gameinstance.Run(), in the above context.

If you happen to create a console project in MSVC, you will have main() instead of winmain() I think.

[AlexL]

Arudil and Gonosz;
Thank you for your help, this was my problem As you've seen from this post, I've forgoten most everything. But it is slowly comming back to me