First, let me introduce myself.

Hello, I'm new to allegro, and somewhat new to C++ as well. However, I have used a scripting language for a program called Gamemaker before, which has similar C++ syntax. I'm familiar with C++ now, after studying it, however, I still dont know how to code some advanced things (ie: templates, network programming, file compression, ect.).

Recently I have been programming a small little casual offline game engine with allegro for windows over the past few days, and it seems that for some reason, I cannot get the game loop to exit when I press the excape button, whilst instead it gives me the "We're sorry, but this program needs to close, blah blah blah" after several seconds.

Using the debugger, I have determined that the game never exits the loop, and instead just goes on and on, dispite using "poll_keyboard();" inside it. The compiler I am using is GNU GCC, and the enviorment is Code::Blocks IDE. The loop is simple at this point, what coding I have already spent is loading all the game's resources.

Here is the loop:

while (!key[KEY_ESC])
{
poll_keyboard();
rest(17);
}

I've also used other checkings instead, such as readkey() and it does not work either. I'm wondering how would I go about fixing this, and I would really appreciate any help.

Oops, actually, it was "key".

You see, I have a wireless network at my house, and I'm using an old slow computer to connect to the internet, while the other one (the one I'm coding on), is not connecting. So I just retyped it out.

Yep, got install_keyboard();

I attached pretty much everything in this file, so go ahead and try to run it yourself. It compiles fine, it just doesn't exit out of the game.

But it doesn't seem you're checking for any errors here to see if it installed properly.

You've got such little code here, couldn't hurt to start commenting things out to get to the bare minimum to figure out what the problem is.

Well, I've gone through and commented half the thing, and turns out it is in the deletion of the resources, and for some reason, the assignment to any number ot the "deleting" array declared in that function throws an exceprtion. Not sure if it is something in allegro or not that is causing the compiler confusion, but its solved nonetheless.

EDIT: Actually that wasin't it. Renaming the boolean array didn't work. So I've just ended up removing the deleteResouces() function entirely. Now it works.