From Glut to Win 32

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming

Started by cMADsc August 29, 2001 01:19 PM

4 comments, last by cMADsc 22 years, 7 months ago

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August 29, 2001 01:19 PM

Greetings all, I have been using glut in my opengl programming lately. Although, I have been learning win 32. Here is a question to those who made the transition from glut to win 32. How much of win 32 did you learn for opengl? The whole language or just enough to make a window? How much should one learn of win 32?Thanks in advance. ----------------------------- "There are ones that say they can and there are those who actually do." "...u can not learn programming in a class, you have to learn it on your own."

-----------------------------"There are ones that say they can and there are those who actually do.""...u can not learn programming in a class, you have to learn it on your own."

WayfarerX

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August 29, 2001 05:55 PM

Yo really don''t need to know a whole lot. Spend a little time on NeHe''s site, the first few tutorials go over getting set up in windows.
Also consider getting "OpenGL Game Programming" by the GameDev gurus themselves, it has a good overview of what Win32 you need to get OpenGL up and running.

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Pauly

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August 29, 2001 08:05 PM

It''s only syntax and semantics you have to learn. The notion of a message processing loop and callbacks you''ve already learnt through GLUT.

Win32 is esentially the same, but with some ''interesting'' (read: questionable) variable names and weirdo CApiTAlisatION