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Encountered this error message when launching AVD in Eclipse IDE: "could not get wgl getextensions string arb"

 I tried to run the sample "Hello World" app and kept getting error message: "could not get wgl getextensions string arb" and Home screen would not show up. The fix is simple though, just locate your installation location of Android SDK\tools\lib and copy this location (for me the location is C:\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64\sdk\tools\lib) and open Control Panel, System, Advanced Settings, and Environment paths.  Click Add New. For the variable name, use: ANDROID_SWT and for the Path write in your path to tools\lib and click OK twice. Now the Android Virtual Device runs without any errors. That is so long as you have setup the paths to Java JDK, etc. already.  Error came back upon second launch. I have ATI HD 4200 Radeon Mobile video card and downloaded latest driver and installed and the error has gone away.

Progress Report:

 I have finished the Programming in C Tutorials of Carl Herold's although the lessons had stopped before the final application was finished so I was left hanging. So I moved on to Bucky Robert's Beginner JavaScript  and finished studying them. I was quite surprised how similar the syntax was to C. I have then completed the MySQL videos available from php academy.org  and the MySQL videos available from The PHP Basics.com . Had struggled to get the code from php academy to work so I searched for a different source to get a more current offering, thinking that the syntax may have changed by updates to MySQL itself which lead me to The PHP Basics, and his lessons were spot on. I applied what I learned from there and corrected the syntax to get it working and finished the rest of the tutorials.  It's been a lot of information to sink in and work with but I am enjoying the know how. Been trying to formulate the best way to move forward with developing the "online proje