Delphi DirectX components

Harry Hunt · 2003-02-04T15:15:35

About two years ago I started to write my own DirectX wrapper components for Delphi (DirectX 8.1) and here's what I got so far DirectDraw wrapper (no alpha-blending support yet) DirectSound wrapper (without DirectSound 3D support) DirectMusic wrapper DirectX Graphics wrapper (for drawing 2D stuff with 3D hardware acceleration) DirectInput wrapper (no joystick support yet) DirectShow wrapper BASS Sound System wrapper Bitmap Font drawing engine (with word-wrap support, both mono and variable-spaced fonts supported, quite fast) System info component (Get info about the 3d card and its features, possible resolutions, windows version, RAM, etc.) Sprite Engine (With ultra fast per-pixel collision detection, word with DirectDraw, DirectX Graphics and Windows GDI) User interface Engine (see Interface Editor) Timer component (Thread driven with frame-rate counter) Error logging component Windows GDI component Windows MMSystem Audio component Package Editor (allows you to store all your game data files in a single package file. Supports folders and sub-folders and much more) Interface Editor (Allows you to create graphical user interfaces using a WYSIWYG editor. Support for buttons, edit-boxes, list-boxes, multi-line text fields and labels) Font Forge (Creates bitmapped fonts from Windows True-Type-Fonts with drop-shadows, glows, Anti-Aliasing... creates Alpha Channels and also allows you to import pre-existing fonts in bitmap format) Stuff that has not been written yet: Direct3D wrapper Sprite Editor Tile-based map editor The "game development kit" will be free, the wrapper classes will be open source (with a custom license) and the tools will be non-open-source. Tell me what you think! Is that something that you'd like to use? [edited by - Harry Hunt on January 22, 2003 12:42:05 PM]

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Started by Harry Hunt January 22, 2003 11:41 AM

16 comments, last by Harry Hunt 21 years, 2 months ago

wisebede

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January 28, 2003 03:31 AM

I''d be interested. DelphiX needs an update but the alternatives don''t currently have an integrated sound solution, or require external DLLs.

Matt SmithManchester, UK

BlueCat

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February 03, 2003 09:16 AM

Hey Lifepower

If you do ever come over to DGDev I''m sure we''ve got room for a new PowerDraw forum. We''ve got a few unanswered questions about PowerDraw, just do a search and you''ll see them!

Cheers

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Lifepower

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February 03, 2003 08:20 PM

Greets... I''d appreciate if you could add new PowerDraw forum; I''ve just checked DGDev forums - nice design

I''m surprised that some people over there know PowerDraw

(PowerDraw "lived" only on Turbo and its forum or so I thought). If you''re willing to add new PowerDraw forum, please let me know by e-mail (lifepower@fromru.com).

- Arcane Lifepower -

"Although the world would call me free
Each day the more her slave am I
For in her very way to be
There''s I don''''t know what, I don''t know why"