Also, with the debug DLL's, errors are displayed in the debugger window in VC (along with a lot of other, helpful information.) This requires that you either have a dual-monitor setup, or that your application can run in a window.

ive tried to compile my code using D3DXGetErrorString() but without success. im using dx sdk 5.x. it is possible that it works only in sdk 6.x or higher ?
a search over the sdk tutorial also gets no success. on my machine ive installed dx6.0 runtime. what can i do to get D3DXGetErrorString() run on my machine?

and: has somebody any idea or an online manual how to install the terminal debugger on a win95(development machine) and a winnt-server(should be the terminal debugger) under vc++ using a tcp/ip network. vc++ books includes == NULL and the ms sites have 1000000 sites with 1000000 information for this prob.

thanks for all help
elmo

and: can anybody tell me how to compare errorcodes with the directx sdk errorcode defines such as DDERR_ILLEGALRECT. I mean the problem is that the routine allways gives me a number, so getting this number i must compare through a list of errorcodes to find the correct one and than i can read the errorcode - or is this wrong - which is the best work and where can i find a list of errorcodes such as (DD_OK = 0)

thanks for any help
elmo

You may find it worthwhile to upgrade to the latest version.

Writing your own version of it is trivial, just do something like the following:

const char* GetDDrawErrorString(HRESULT hresult)
{
switch(hresult)
{
case DDERR_SURFACELOST:
return "Surface Lost";
case DDERR_SURFACEBUSY:
return "Surface is busy";
case DDERR_ALREADYLOCKED:
return "Survace was already locked";

. . .
default:
return "Unknown Error";
}
}