My application is both windowed and fullscreen, you can switch between them at run time by pressing a key (later on I will put this function on an options screen or something).
Machaira, I felt the need to do this for several reasons.
- Curiosity. I''m learning lots. Also, when I move onto C++ this will also be essential knowledge.
- Control. My own window object can do alot more than a VB form can.
- Performance. I''m not sure if there will be much of a performance increase, but I won''t know unless I try.
- Lean-ness (I need a better word, lol). VB Forms do alot of things which I don''t need for a simple DX window.
There remain a few unanswered questions, but I think I can figure them myself from here.
How comes the application freezes up without this extra code? I''m assuming its just because it falls into a very tight loop.
How do I go about creating an application with multiple windows? I guess I must only stop processing if all windows are inactive.
And what if my application has no windows at all? How do I know when I''m inactive then? I guess I will have to voluntarily become inactive every so often to avoid hogging CPU.
See, a stupid VB programmer is becoming more enlightened
