Allegro Help

This compiles fine but won't work and I have no I dea why the screen just flashes twice and goes away. Heres the code.

Code:

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#include <allegro.h>

volatile long speed_counter = 0;

void increment_speed()
{ speed_counter++;
}
END_OF_FUNCTION(increment_speed);



int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{

//Initialize Allegro
 
  allegro_init();
  install_keyboard();
  install_timer();
  install_int_ex(increment_speed, BPS_TO_TIMER(60));
  set_color_depth(24);
  set_gfx_mode(GFX_SAFE, 640, 480, 0, 0);
  LOCK_VARIABLE(speed_counter);
  LOCK_FUNCTION(increment_speed_counter);
// BITMAPS

BITMAP *fwd1=load_bitmap("fwd1.bmp",NULL);
BITMAP *fwd2=load_bitmap("fwd2.bmp",NULL);
BITMAP *idle=load_bitmap("idle.bmp",NULL);
BITMAP *buffer=create_bitmap(640,480);

//Main Loop

draw_sprite(buffer, fwd1, 0, 0);
draw_sprite(buffer, fwd2, 200, 0);
draw_sprite(buffer, fwd1, 200, 200);

// Clean Up/Exit

destroy_bitmap(fwd1);
destroy_bitmap(fwd2);
destroy_bitmap(idle);
return 0;
}
END_OF_MAIN();

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By the way does anyone know of any allegro specific message boards that are anygood I went looking for one to post this question but never found one. So anyway any help would be greatly appreciated.


--Kas2002--

Code:

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//Main Loop

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You didn't actually include a loop.

do this to get a loop

Code:

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while(key![KEY_ESC])
 {
  //code here (i.e. your draw_sprite() )
 }

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Follow the link in my signature and it will take you to my site, which has a bunch of links and a couple of tutorials regarding Allegro.

what you mean now...............
except I have a bigger problem........I have Dev C++ 5 and Dev C++ 4 (because 5 has some bugs in it) and in 5 I keep gettin tons of linker errors when I am sure I linked it and in Dev C++4 when I compile my source that compiles fine it won't even run at all it just does absolutly nothing.......I am very frustrated

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Originally posted by kas2002
...does anyone know of any allegro specific message boards that are anygood...

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Try the Allegro.cc forums, there's lots of good info on there.