Why do I get this, and is there a way to translate the message to English?
Foreign error message
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I'm playing around with shaders for the first time, (Man, was I missing out)
but made a mistake and tripped one of my DXTrace errors when my shader failed validation. I hit 'No' on the confirmation of debugging the app, and I get the following before the app terminates.
Why do I get this, and is there a way to translate the message to English?
Why do I get this, and is there a way to translate the message to English?
What if you say 'yes' to debugging it? Do you then get a callstack that might make more sense?
Did you accidentally install some foreign language version of the sdk? Weird
Did you accidentally install some foreign language version of the sdk? Weird
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If I click 'yes', a break point is set and I'm told there is no disassembly available. No surprises there. This is an English installation as far as I can tell. I've been using the SDK long enough to see if I downloaded a different locale... Everything else is English. I've been installing it on several PCs from removable storage. My OS itself is not set to an East Asian locale, although I do have language packs.
It's just these messages that are in... Kanji, right? They seem to change depending on the errors in my shaders. This is bugging me. If they describe errors, I want to know what they say.
It's just these messages that are in... Kanji, right? They seem to change depending on the errors in my shaders. This is bugging me. If they describe errors, I want to know what they say.
Quote:Original post by zyrolastingIt looks like gibberish to me.
It's just these messages that are in... Kanji, right? They seem to change depending on the errors in my shaders. This is bugging me. If they describe errors, I want to know what they say.
I'd say you're calling the Ansi version of D3DXCreateEffectFromFile (or whatever you're calling) which is returning an Ansi string in the ppCompilationErrors object and you're casting it to a wchar_t string - resulting in gibberish. Can you show us the code you're using?
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That was it, I was casting the compilation errors ID3DXBuffer pointer to a wide character pointer (through TCHAR). The message is now legible. Good eye!
Why does everything else in D3DX resolve to either ANSI or Unicode, but not the methods of ID3DXEffect?
Why does everything else in D3DX resolve to either ANSI or Unicode, but not the methods of ID3DXEffect?
Are you using D3DXCreateEffectFromFile to load the effect? Or something else?
The buffer in ppCompilationErrors will contain either an Ansi error message or a Unicode error message depending on whether you call D3DXCreateEffectFromFileA or D3DXCreateEffectFromFileW. If you just call D3DXCreateEffectFromFile (no explicit A or W) it'll just use whatever version TCHAR resolves to. So unless you're explicitly calling the A or W version, it should "just work".
The buffer in ppCompilationErrors will contain either an Ansi error message or a Unicode error message depending on whether you call D3DXCreateEffectFromFileA or D3DXCreateEffectFromFileW. If you just call D3DXCreateEffectFromFile (no explicit A or W) it'll just use whatever version TCHAR resolves to. So unless you're explicitly calling the A or W version, it should "just work".
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But I do use D3DXCreateEffectFromFile. Compilation errors and Set/Get methods use ANSI strings only, while the file name is TCHAR. Here's the working call from the framework, with the correct message output on an error instead of gibberish.
It seems that although the file name can be either MB or unicode, the strings that have anything to do with the file contents has to be ANSI.
D3DXBuffer d3dxB; if ( F_HR( D3DXCreateEffectFromFile ( m_pD3DDevice, _T("ColorShader.fx"), 0, 0, D3DXSHADER_DEBUG, 0, &m_Effect, &d3dxB ) ) ) { MessageBoxA(m_hWindow,(char*)d3dxB->GetBufferPointer(),0,0); return false; }It seems that although the file name can be either MB or unicode, the strings that have anything to do with the file contents has to be ANSI.
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