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| Some recent topics started on our forums | |
| Recommend Me an Academic Book Please | Background: I do this C++ programming contest for a high school organization called Business Professionals of America (BPA). I've won Illinois state two years in a row now, but this year the entire contest was changed. Before, the format was one... |
| Posted January 28, 2008 10:42:45 PM | |
| Getting Directx to run: compiles examples but not own code | I installed VC++ express 08 and the directx sdk. I followed the instructions presented at a number of sites, and finally got all of the included directx tutorials (such as the trippin' triangle) to compile. But when I start a blank project in VC++ an... |
| Posted January 12, 2008 12:30:45 PM | |
| BPA Nationals New York- You Going? | For those of you who dont know, BPA (Business Professionals of America) is a highschool/college "club" that focuses on 3-4 dozen business related skills and has contests concerning them each year. These contests range from various accounting to... |
| Posted May 5, 2007 11:43:13 PM | |
| Any one speak Czech??? | I found this Czech page about a game I made for the 4e4 Contest: Here I speak Polish and some German, but I cannot make sense of what they are saying about my game. If anyone could help me out with a translation or more of a quick summary, i wo... |
| Posted July 18, 2006 11:51:51 PM | |
| Multiple Inheritence and Overloaded Functions (C++) | Okay, I have two classes, both of which have the same function, init(...) [amongst other things], but init's parameter's are different: class A{ ... public: init(char, int, int); } class B{ ... public: init(int, int, int, int, int, int);... |
| Posted June 18, 2006 6:32:24 PM | |
| Win32 API: Buttons!!!! | okay; this is copied from another post i made on another board: "Yeah- I got a question with the win32 api. Im trying to create a simple button on my main window: I take a gander at msdn for CreateWindow(...): lpClassName [in] Poi... |
| Posted April 17, 2006 9:14:20 PM | |
| Upgrading Ram | Okay- I come back here to the lounge to ask for even more advice: Background: I've been programming "seriously" for about two years now (Im a sophomore in highschool), but my computer sucks. I've never really had that much money, so this machine... |
| Posted January 30, 2006 6:48:05 PM | |
| Starting to tutor, need advice about how much to charge. | Here is the low-down: Im a sophomore in highschool and I got a job tutoring someone today. The person has always been sort of a good friend, but since being in highschool we have fallen out, nameley because he doesn't take the same kind of (read: hon... |
| Posted January 24, 2006 10:12:59 PM | |
| Pointers To Derived Classes in C++ | I haven't done classes in c++ in awhile, and I have a question. Let's say that I have class a. Classes b and c inherit from class a. I declare a pointer: a* ptr; Can I use that pointer to (successfully and without casting) point to instance... |
| Posted December 29, 2005 2:34:26 PM | |
| Techniques from reading from files. | I have a file that I load information from for my program. Some of the information is numbers, others is strings. Let's say I have the following text file that I am going to load: 17 14 hello how are you To load it, i would use an ifstream... |
| Posted December 19, 2005 12:50:32 AM | |
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| Some recent replies made on our forums | |
| Recommend Me an Academic Book Please | Thanks for the suggestions. The reason I was going for an "academic" book is simply because to me, what I am looking for looks more like theory than practice, and most of the "teach-yourself" books that I use/am familiar with are about actually doing... |
| Posted January 29, 2008 10:54:11 PM | |
| coding help | Read the faq. Using [ source ] and then [ / source ] (without the spaces) formats your code nicely so everyone can read it without explosion of the head. |
| Posted January 27, 2008 11:30:45 PM | |
| 2D game and clipping | Left, right, bottom, top is how directx defines its rectangle coordinates. Some apis, like SDL, use left, right, width, length, but directx uses the other one to define the size of a rectangle. |
| Posted January 21, 2008 2:29:37 AM | |
| 2D game and clipping | Sounds like GBA programming in one of the latter modes??? By clipping do you mean only drawing a selected portion of your sprite image, like to do animation or something? To me, that seems only a question of some fancy for-loops. |
| Posted January 21, 2008 1:51:23 AM | |
| Very slow console (visual studio) | Maybe you turned debugging off/on or some other options off/on. Reinstalling it might not help, unless you do a clean, full reinstall, because visualc++ may save some of your options, but delete the entire program. Also check your task manager for... |
| Posted January 17, 2008 8:28:53 PM | |
| Help installing SDL on Dev-C++ Please Only getting a flash of the screen | Download newest non-beta version of Dev-C++. Tools->Check for updates, download newest version of SDL through that and install. Go to libsdl.org and make sure you download the newest sdl.dll and place it in your system32 folder (devc++ might do... |
| Posted January 14, 2008 10:20:57 PM | |
| SDL-platform game gravity | How much physics have you taken/are comfortable with? Inertia is really just momemtum, and momentum is mass times velocity; when you jump, you could retain their horizontal velocity, and then they would "drift" in the jump. If they pressed it the oth... |
| Posted January 14, 2008 5:29:02 PM | |
| getting graphic to display using classes? | First things first: "SDL_Flip(render.returnScreen())": you defined a function to do this, and should probably stick with using it ("void update()"). I don't quite see where the problem is either. I'd recommend either going through it with a debug... |
| Posted January 13, 2008 10:37:26 PM | |
| Election '08: A question about corporations, economy, and people that get screwed | The reason that the companies don't care about less revenue from layed off employees because these employees only represent a very small portion of the population who buys their goods. Well, if the portion was big enough, the company would care,... |
| Posted January 13, 2008 8:41:29 PM | |
| Number/Prices and currency | Your missing #include <iostream>, as well as the start of your main() function. |
| Posted January 13, 2008 1:30:36 AM | |
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