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Full Name Abel Corver
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State/Province, Country Noord-Brabant   Netherlands
GD Gathering City Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
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NPAPI auto-update plugin Hi everyone, I've written 2 NPAPI plugins: one is the installer, that downloads a lot of other files, and gives nice feedback to the user, and the other is the actual app. The problem that I've encountered is that it's impossible to update... 
Posted December 31, 2010 9:38:34 AM
mysql connect Hey everyone, I'm using MySQL Connector/C to connect to my local MySQL database. It keeps saying: Quote:Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (0) Even when I fill out all the information, like: mysql_real_connect(&mysql... 
Posted October 27, 2010 8:16:47 AM
Speex sound encoding/decoding doubles speed Hi everyone, I'm working on an audio app, and after I got simple raw sound capture / playback to work, I started usign Speex to encode/decode the raw sound data. It seemed to work, until I noticed that it was playing at double the speed of... 
Posted October 25, 2010 11:19:33 AM
Earth Images Copyright and/or privacy issues ? Hey everyone! I'm working on a game and I want to include some images of some cities scrolling by underneath some clouds... I'd like to use something like Google Maps / Earth... 1. Is this legal ? Are there no copyright issues ? 2. I'm pretty... 
Posted January 17, 2010 1:48:16 PM
Strange Colors DirectShow camera capture Hey everyone! As you can see, the colors are kinda weird in some places... I'm not sure whether DirectShow is the one to blame here, but I've no idea what is causing this problem, and since I'm very new to DirectShow, it seems like to... 
Posted December 13, 2009 8:51:17 AM
Managed/Unmanaged InterOp & Class Impl. Across DLL boundaries Hi everyone. Maybe I should explain what I tried to say in the title ;) I'm working on my own game engine written in C++. I want to be able to use it on a variety of platforms, but for the first thing I want is support for XNA, so that... 
Posted September 21, 2009 2:27:28 PM
WGL: High Memory Usage and Slow Startup NOTE: I also posted this message on the NeHe Productions forum. I noticed this forum today, actually :D I guess the NeHe forum is more about the NeHe tutorials, or not? Please tell me to what forum I must sent these kind of questions (see below)... 
Posted July 5, 2009 5:39:30 AM
Flash Viewport Hey everyone, I'm completely new to Flash... as you'll now see :D lol ... Could someone please tell me more about the viewport Flash is using. Where is the origin located, in which direction do the positive x and y axes run, etc. I tried to find... 
Posted July 4, 2009 11:13:25 AM
WGL: High Memory Usage and Slow Startup Hey guys, I just started writing my very first OpenGL app. I need to use WGL, so that I have full control over window creation. I managed to implement this functionality, so that I have a borderless window and everything seems to work fine when no... 
Posted July 4, 2009 10:31:57 AM
Magic Run: My first Silverlight game Hey everyone, these are some screenshots of a game I made during the past 3.5 weeks for a competition at GameInstitute.com. It's my first Silverlight game, so the game isn't really polished. The idea is simple... You have t race against 7 other... 
Posted May 19, 2009 12:36:54 AM
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Some recent replies made on our forums
mysql connect Both command lines you suggested worked. However, my application still doesn't. However, I've had a change of mind now that I realise that directly connecting to a database from the client (which would someone need to know the password), is extremely... 
Posted November 8, 2010 12:08:07 PM
mysql connect Wow, it took me a bit longer than I expected (understatement) =D. However, today I was able to try out your suggestions, and unfortunately, they didn't work. I still got the following message: Quote:Can't connect to MySQL server on '84.86.... 
Posted November 6, 2010 9:43:02 AM
mysql connect Thanks a lot for your help. I've tried connecting to MySQL on the command line, and everything worked fine. I've just converted my .exe project to a .lib project, so that I can use it in a browser plugin. I need to reach a point again, where... 
Posted October 30, 2010 8:42:27 PM
mysql connect Hi RobotGuy, thank you for your advice. Unfortunately, it didn't work. I was wondering, could a version mismatch between the MySQL server and MySQL client cause the problem? 
Posted October 29, 2010 7:01:16 AM
Earth Images Copyright and/or privacy issues ? Thanks for your help and tips. vterrain is indeed a great resource! Cheers! Abel. 
Posted January 18, 2010 9:02:05 AM
Earth Images Copyright and/or privacy issues ? Thank you for your kind response. I saw a texture with such an image being used that appeared to be from sites like Google Maps... So I wasn't sure whether the copyright notice was specific to the COPYING of the service itself, or parts from it, so... 
Posted January 18, 2010 3:22:04 AM
Am I doing the right things to get into the industry Hey! Quote:2. Have I missed something? Has anyone here tried to discourage Zac (he who said "commercialism robs the world")? Or did Zac say someone tried to discourage him? Haha, no, I didn't mean any people around here at gamedev.net :D you gu... 
Posted December 25, 2009 2:53:17 PM
Am I doing the right things to get into the industry Hey Zac, I'm a 16 yo student, and I'd just like to briefly tell you my opinion. First of all (and please don't get me wrong): Don't always listen to others. Yes, people will try to discourage you, but remember, this is NOT about them. It's about Y... 
Posted December 23, 2009 4:10:58 PM
Strange Colors DirectShow camera capture Hey! First of all, sorry for this late response. I was too busy with school stuff... :( Thanks for your reply, but I tried it, and the strange colors keep appearing. I didn't use BitBlt though, because it didn't give me the ability to resize... 
Posted December 19, 2009 11:15:45 AM
Strange Colors DirectShow camera capture Hey guys, thanks so much for your answers! I wasn't able to reply earlier, because I had to prepare like a billion things for school. @Nik02: Thanks for your suggestions, I'll try this out asap. @BALAMURGAN: Ok, I was expecting (actually hopi... 
Posted December 15, 2009 12:17:38 PM
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