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From: "Matt Verran" <matt@frktl.freeserve.co.uk>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics
Subject: Re: font routine hangs
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 20:55:44 +0100
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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I got it!!!!   YEEEES.   I had mucked about with the update screen routine
in main.c and wasn't clearing the OT's on the very first iteration of the
main loop (DOH STUPID!).

Thanks for the help Scott.


Matt Verran wrote in message <7k8uda$75r22@chuka.playstation.co.uk>...
>I had it set to 24000, but tried 70000 and it still crashes on that line
>after 8 iterations???
>
>the routine is in another file (font.c) from main.c. font.c #includes
main.h
>which provides
>a definition for the ordering tables stuff but as 'extern' does this sound
>right??
>
>
>Scott Cartier wrote in message <3767F3C6.685D7D28@vmlabs.com>...
>>Do you have enough packet space allocated?  Since you're using one
>>sprite per character, if you're trying to display a lot of text it could
>>overrun your packet area.  Try increasing it to some ungodly large
>>number to see if that fixes it.
>>
>>Scott
>>
>>
>>> the hang is caused by the following line:
>>>
>>> GsSortFastSprite(&spriteInfo,&world_ordering_table[output_buffer_index],
>0);
>>>
>>> although I still have no ide why???
>
>