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BitMaster

Member Since 08 Aug 2000
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In Topic: How to make dll...

26 April 2013 - 01:08 AM

Exactly what do you need? You are speaking of needing DLLs but then you mix that in with mentioning Linux and MacOS. Concepts similar exists on both operating systems, but a DLL won't work on anything but Windows. You can probably cross-compile using gcc but I'm lacking experience here.
Are you certain you really need to compile it yourself? So far I have always been able to find a precompiled version of OpenCV for all platforms I needed it on.

Edit: Also, a couple of general pointers. Whenever possible use the same operating system to create a dynamic link library. Unless you know better, always use the exact same compiler and build settings you are using for the main program for the dynamic library.
There is no magic bullet on how to build a library. Any decent one will come with build instructions on how to build the library on the different platforms. It might be as simple as going into the right directory and calling 'make' or it might requires hours of configuration and dependency hunting.

In Topic: Help with a Solar System

22 April 2013 - 12:40 AM

I have tried to use freetype but i didn't succeded.

What have you tried? What exactly did you do? What did not work? What were the exact error messages?

In Topic: Game Not Working

19 April 2013 - 01:54 AM

Some1 plz help with this stupid error!!

Don't you think it's a bit stupid that you ask people to sink quite a bit of time into your problem and you don't even have the time or interest to type "someone" and "please"?

I am using Eclipse... Is it because of Eclipse??

No.

You told Eclipse to launch the application despite the fact that your program is not a valid, compilable Java program. Fix whatever error is around line 65 in DotComBust.java.

In Topic: Help with a Solar System

19 April 2013 - 01:39 AM

Please help me!( write on private)

The very point of a forum is being a free resource for everyone. Answering questions in private defeats the whole purpose and is very selfish.

That aside, you just have to properly process the mouse messages to react on button presses. Since you do not offer any information on what you use to create and manage the window (pure Windows API? SDL? GLUT? GLFW? SFML? ...) it is impossible to be less general here.

There are plenty of ways to get text in there. A common approach would be using freetype to render text into a bitmap, use that bitmap as a texture and render that texture with OpenGL.

In Topic: Keeping functions in a game engine. Switching engines

17 April 2013 - 05:00 AM

I have three suggestions:
1) Stick to one engine version.
2) Do not modify the actual engine code.
3) Instead of updating between releases, regularly pull in changes in the engine's repository. Keeping modifications alive will generally be easier with a sequence of small incremental merges than with monolithic changes between releases.

That said, I would strongly prefer (2), followed by (1) if it absolutely has to be done. My personal opinion is that if you have to do such modifications to the 3rd party engine you either picked the wrong engine to begin with or an engine that was not sufficiently along in its development to use it in an actual product.

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