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Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17274 Posts
December 22 2011 00:38 GMT
#1981
I'm trying to install the Windows SDK, but the installer keeps failing. The web installer and ISO installer errors out with
A problem occurred while installing selected Windows SDK components.

Installation of the "Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7" product has reported the following error: Please refer to Samples\Setup\HTML\ConfigDetails.htm document for further information.

Please attempt to resolve the problem and then start Windows SDK setup again. If you continue to have problems with this issue, please visit the SDK team support page at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=130245.

Click the View Log button to review the installation log.
To exit, click Finish."


The end of the error log reads:
+ Show Spoiler +

7:33:47 PM Wednesday, December 21, 2011: SFX C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Setup\SFX\vcredist_x64.exe installation started with log file C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Temp\Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7_0f09d0ba-9ef4-40fa-a294-a60754e10b4c_SFX.log

7:33:55 PM Wednesday, December 21, 2011: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Setup\SFX\vcredist_x64.exe installed successfully.

7:33:55 PM Wednesday, December 21, 2011: SFX C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Setup\SFX\vcredist_x86.exe installation started with log file C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Temp\Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7_728e3a58-b902-49c8-92a6-5836d4c21324_SFX.log

7:33:58 PM Wednesday, December 21, 2011: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Setup\SFX\vcredist_x86.exe installation failed with return code 5100

7:34:06 PM Wednesday, December 21, 2011: [SDKSetup:Error] Config_Products_Install: Installation of Product Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 (failed): Please refer to Samples\Setup\HTML\ConfigDetails.htm document for further information. Stack: at SDKSetup.Product.ConfigureRelatedSfx() at SDKSetup.Product.ConfigureNewProduct(ManualResetEvent CancelEvent)

7:34:06 PM Wednesday, December 21, 2011: [SDKSetup:Info] Config_Products_InstallNew: End installation of new product: Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7

7:34:06 PM Wednesday, December 21, 2011: [SDKSetup:Error] Config_Products_Install: Windows SDK Setup (failed): Installation of the "Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7" product has reported the following error: Please refer to Samples\Setup\HTML\ConfigDetails.htm document for further information. Stack: at SDKSetup.Product.ConfigureNewProduct(ManualResetEvent CancelEvent) at SDKSetup.Product.SetupProduct(TaskMode taskMode, ManualResetEvent CancelEvent) at SDKSetup.ProductCollection.SetupProducts(TaskMode taskMode, DownloadManager downloadManager, ManualResetEvent cancelEvent) at SDKSetup.ConfigProducts.DoCurrentTask(TaskMode Task)


The only solutions I found online were to try again after deleting the temp folder and to use the ISO installer both of which I tried. Any ideas?
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Deleted_143
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia256 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-22 00:58:21
December 22 2011 00:50 GMT
#1982
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fabiano
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Brazil4644 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-22 01:03:35
December 22 2011 00:58 GMT
#1983
On December 22 2011 01:04 green.at wrote:
Hey guy's quick question: In a 2D game with maps that are 2Darrays how would i implement multiple levels of altitude on one map. I think adding a z-axis is too wasteful, and placing smaller arrays "on top" of my ground level array seems suboptimal. any suggestions?


Make your tile have an altitude attribute?

-1 = underground
0 = ground
1 = highground
2 = sky

This is also useful if you want to check if a tank can get across that tile or not. Could use also bit shifting for better performance if that concerns you too much.
"When the geyser died, a probe came out" - SirJolt
Millitron
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States2611 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-22 01:03:56
December 22 2011 01:03 GMT
#1984
On December 22 2011 09:58 fabiano wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 22 2011 01:04 green.at wrote:
Hey guy's quick question: In a 2D game with maps that are 2Darrays how would i implement multiple levels of altitude on one map. I think adding a z-axis is too wasteful, and placing smaller arrays "on top" of my ground level array seems suboptimal. any suggestions?


Make your tile have a altitude attribute?

-1 = underground
0 = ground
1 = highground
2 = sky

Which is basically just adding a z-axis. I don't see any way around it.

On December 22 2011 09:11 weareallclowns wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 18 2011 14:30 Millitron wrote:
OpenGL is really good, once you get all the libraries and DLL's installed. It was kind of a pain to do on Windows 7 64 bit; it kept saying it couldn't find files that I was absolutely sure were in the right place, but once it's installed, its great.

I used Visual Studio 2007, but I wouldn't recommend it, as the IDE's built-in debugger causes more problems than it solves. For instance, it absolutely will not run anything involving image maps if you try to run it within the environment. You have to compile it and run it as a stand-alone, which can be annoying if you have to test-run it a lot.

I would suggest using Eclipse for your IDE, as its been great whenever I've used it, though to be honest, I never used it for graphical work.


Late reply, but I felt a thanks was on it's place. I will try Eclipse out.

You're very welcome. Happy I could help.
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fabiano
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Brazil4644 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-22 01:07:30
December 22 2011 01:06 GMT
#1985
What about different tile classes? WaterTile, GroundTile, SkyTile, etc... all of them implementing a common interface, for example.

No idea whats better or whats worse, just throwing some ideas.

Edit: sorry, so many edits...
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green.at
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Austria1459 Posts
December 22 2011 01:14 GMT
#1986
yeah i was leaning towards the altitude attribute, still better than adding a z-axis. I guess I'll have to go with that.
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Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17274 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-22 01:19:07
December 22 2011 01:19 GMT
#1987
On December 22 2011 09:50 Klesky wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 22 2011 09:38 Craton wrote:
I'm trying to install the Windows SDK, but the installer keeps failing. The web installer and ISO installer errors out with
A problem occurred while installing selected Windows SDK components.

Installation of the "Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7" product has reported the following error: Please refer to Samples\Setup\HTML\ConfigDetails.htm document for further information.

Please attempt to resolve the problem and then start Windows SDK setup again. If you continue to have problems with this issue, please visit the SDK team support page at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=130245.

Click the View Log button to review the installation log.
To exit, click Finish."


The end of the error log reads:
+ Show Spoiler +

7:33:47 PM Wednesday, December 21, 2011: SFX C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Setup\SFX\vcredist_x64.exe installation started with log file C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Temp\Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7_0f09d0ba-9ef4-40fa-a294-a60754e10b4c_SFX.log

7:33:55 PM Wednesday, December 21, 2011: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Setup\SFX\vcredist_x64.exe installed successfully.

7:33:55 PM Wednesday, December 21, 2011: SFX C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Setup\SFX\vcredist_x86.exe installation started with log file C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Temp\Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7_728e3a58-b902-49c8-92a6-5836d4c21324_SFX.log

7:33:58 PM Wednesday, December 21, 2011: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Setup\SFX\vcredist_x86.exe installation failed with return code 5100

7:34:06 PM Wednesday, December 21, 2011: [SDKSetup:Error] Config_Products_Install: Installation of Product Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 (failed): Please refer to Samples\Setup\HTML\ConfigDetails.htm document for further information. Stack: at SDKSetup.Product.ConfigureRelatedSfx() at SDKSetup.Product.ConfigureNewProduct(ManualResetEvent CancelEvent)

7:34:06 PM Wednesday, December 21, 2011: [SDKSetup:Info] Config_Products_InstallNew: End installation of new product: Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7

7:34:06 PM Wednesday, December 21, 2011: [SDKSetup:Error] Config_Products_Install: Windows SDK Setup (failed): Installation of the "Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7" product has reported the following error: Please refer to Samples\Setup\HTML\ConfigDetails.htm document for further information. Stack: at SDKSetup.Product.ConfigureNewProduct(ManualResetEvent CancelEvent) at SDKSetup.Product.SetupProduct(TaskMode taskMode, ManualResetEvent CancelEvent) at SDKSetup.ProductCollection.SetupProducts(TaskMode taskMode, DownloadManager downloadManager, ManualResetEvent cancelEvent) at SDKSetup.ConfigProducts.DoCurrentTask(TaskMode Task)


The only solutions I found online were to try again after deleting the temp folder and to use the ISO installer both of which I tried. Any ideas?


What versions of the visual C/C++ runtimes do you have installed?

C++ is 10.0.30319 for x86 and x64, but nothing for C that I see.
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MrBludgeon
Profile Joined April 2011
United States30 Posts
December 22 2011 01:37 GMT
#1988
So, I am about to finish up my B.A. in Mathematics here next semester and I plan on continuing on to graduate school (the application process was a gigantic pain in the ass). Anyway, I realized that I need to do some coding every so often and that there are probably languages better suited to my needs than java.

I don't do any finite combinatorics and very rarely do I do any computationally heavy work. However, I have found the need to graph increasingly accurate approximations of certain functions. If anyone is familiar with continuous and nowhere differentiable functions, those are the sorts of things I would want to graph. For example, I recently wrote a paper in my Analysis course and I wanted to graph an approximation the following:

[image loading]

Unfortunately, I do not know of a way to implement this. If someone knows of a language that is well suited to handle this sort of thing, feel free to let me know. My exposure to languages is rather minimal, so I really do not know how far one can go with programming. Also, I apologize if this is not the appropriate place to post this.
Deleted_143
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia256 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-22 01:46:15
December 22 2011 01:45 GMT
#1989
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fabiano
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Brazil4644 Posts
December 22 2011 02:01 GMT
#1990
On December 22 2011 10:37 MrBludgeon wrote:
So, I am about to finish up my B.A. in Mathematics here next semester and I plan on continuing on to graduate school (the application process was a gigantic pain in the ass). Anyway, I realized that I need to do some coding every so often and that there are probably languages better suited to my needs than java.

I don't do any finite combinatorics and very rarely do I do any computationally heavy work. However, I have found the need to graph increasingly accurate approximations of certain functions. If anyone is familiar with continuous and nowhere differentiable functions, those are the sorts of things I would want to graph. For example, I recently wrote a paper in my Analysis course and I wanted to graph an approximation the following:

[image loading]

Unfortunately, I do not know of a way to implement this. If someone knows of a language that is well suited to handle this sort of thing, feel free to let me know. My exposure to languages is rather minimal, so I really do not know how far one can go with programming. Also, I apologize if this is not the appropriate place to post this.


MathLab: http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/index.html

I dont know how to code with it, so I can't help any further, but I'm pretty sure that is what you need.
"When the geyser died, a probe came out" - SirJolt
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17274 Posts
December 22 2011 02:06 GMT
#1991
I uninstalled all things c++ 2010 and it made the install work.

Thanks
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billy5000
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States865 Posts
December 22 2011 04:11 GMT
#1992
stupid question (I'm awfully new at this ><): http://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java/11hello/UseArgument.java.html This doesn't seem to work for some reason. I'm guessing that System.out.print(args[0]); is a way to input, but an error comes up saying java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0.
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand. Vonnegut
AndyG
Profile Joined July 2010
United States22 Posts
December 22 2011 04:16 GMT
#1993
On December 22 2011 13:11 billy5000 wrote:
stupid question (I'm awfully new at this ><): http://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java/11hello/UseArgument.java.html This doesn't seem to work for some reason. I'm guessing that System.out.print(args[0]); is a way to input, but an error comes up saying java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0.


That is happening because you aren't running the program with any input like they show in the example. If you've followed that tutorial up to where you're at, executing using

"% java UseArgument Bob"

should work just fine. Basically, the args[] array is an array of Strings that is populated using your input after the execution command. That program tries to use the first String in that array, but since you've entered none, the print call is looking at a part of the array with nothing in it. In other words, as your error states, the array index is out of bounds.
billy5000
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States865 Posts
December 22 2011 05:04 GMT
#1994
Where do I exactly type in % java UseArgument Bob?
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand. Vonnegut
One Student
Profile Joined April 2011
73 Posts
December 22 2011 05:49 GMT
#1995
On December 22 2011 10:06 fabiano wrote:
What about different tile classes? WaterTile, GroundTile, SkyTile, etc... all of them implementing a common interface, for example.

No idea whats better or whats worse, just throwing some ideas.

Edit: sorry, so many edits...


I remember reading a topic on game development and thought I should share what I learned.

You should do that if the differences between each tile are so big that it warrants separate classes for each. The problem with doing things like this is that in large scale games with many different objects, tiles, enemies, etc. you'll end up having loads of classes with no real functionality for each. Whereas aggregation could have solved your problem easily.

Depression is what you get for leading a repetitive life.
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17274 Posts
December 22 2011 07:17 GMT
#1996
I've been trying to make a simple c# program that can read the currently playing song from windows media player (not an embedded object), but damn if that isn't a lot harder than I expected.

It'd probably be quicker to just learn c++ -_-
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simmion
Profile Joined June 2011
United States34 Posts
December 22 2011 16:22 GMT
#1997
On December 22 2011 14:04 billy5000 wrote:
Where do I exactly type in % java UseArgument Bob?



From your command prompt. in the same folder as UseArgument.class

C:\files\UseArgument.java

eg.
C:\files\: javac UseArgument.java
C:\files\: java UseArgument argument
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green.at
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Austria1459 Posts
December 22 2011 22:16 GMT
#1998
for the record, quadtrees are female dogs '-.-
Inputting special characters into chat should no longer cause the game to crash.
HowitZer
Profile Joined February 2003
United States1610 Posts
December 22 2011 23:50 GMT
#1999
On December 22 2011 16:17 Craton wrote:
I've been trying to make a simple c# program that can read the currently playing song from windows media player (not an embedded object), but damn if that isn't a lot harder than I expected.

It'd probably be quicker to just learn c++ -_-




C# and .NET should make that easier to do than trying to use C++ especially if you are a C++ newb.
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tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19188 Posts
December 22 2011 23:53 GMT
#2000
To do that in C++ will require you to know some basic things like hooking processes and using various API calls. I'm pretty sure it's easier in C#.
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