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[Josh1billion]

Fraps doesn't work with my Allegro application: the hotkeys don't do anything. I tried Fraps out with another game (DOOM) and it worked just fine, though.

I even tried my game out full-screened (previously it was windowed) and still nothing.

Any ideas?

[Almos]

Hmm... Maybe because FRAPS was created to be used in conjunction with DirectX powered games and applications?

[Josh1billion]

I see.. OpenGL too, according to the site. I thought people had used Fraps with Allegro applications in the past, however.

[juhnu]

The Allegro is a high-level game api which uses graphics services of an underlying platform. In Windows it has support for the DirectX and GDI.

The reason why the Fraps is not working correctly is probably keyboard handling related. Give it a try and try disabling Allegro's keyboard management routines - not sure how to do this though as i have never used Allegro.

[Josh1billion]

That was a good idea, but it didn't work when I tried it out just now. I tried removing the call to the install_keyboard() function and nothing happened except it seemed like my processor was doing some extra work when I pressed the Fraps FPS hotkey button (F9).. no FPS counter came up though (other than the one written in my application, of course) and the movie recorder didn't work, either.

[Prozac]

You can just do what I did and hook up a VCR to your computer :p