Re: Please help me!

[Great ME <honza@lobo.cz>]

Adam Metro wrote:

> I'm just starting out programming games, and i was wondering if anyone could
> help me. I'm using Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0. Right now i'm just trying to
> get something up on the screen. The first time i tried to compile it, it
> worked! Then i changed a couple of things that wouldn't screw up anything,
> then when i compiled it again, it gave me this error: fatal error LNK1168:
> cannot open Debug/test.exe for writing. What the heck does this mean??? And
> how do you fix it??
>
> Adam

You probably didn't call PostQuitMessage(0) function. It destroys the procces.
Unless you do it, the program is still running after you close it, althought
it's
not on the screen anymore. Because it's running, you cannot rewrite the *.exe
file.



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