Where Delphi oddly uses both the / symbol and the keyword div for floating point and integer operations (respectively), C/C++ uses just the / symbol, and uses a little brain-power. ;-)

It''s one of Delphi''s pointless language quirks (like disallowing a semicolon before a then keyword, which it in itself is pointless).

Basically, you''d translate that to:

ALPHABY4 := (ALPHA div 4) div ((ALPHA div 4) shl 16);

I haven''t tested that though.

Please don''t take that as Delphi bashing. I''m fluent in both C++ and Delphi (Object Pascal), as well as numerous other languages. ;-)

I use Delphi a LOT at work (business applications). It''s quite an amazing development environment - the compiler is faster than compilers in many other languages, even when it''s processing a great deal more lines of code. The compiler is also very good at producing very fast, optimized machine code. The speed, coupled with VCL technology is just plain amazing. The language itself has come a long, long way from the original Pascal specifications (the addition of classes, overridable member functions, etc. etc.) such that it supports much the same things that C++ does (and at least one thing it doesn''t - nested functions), but still has some quirky hold-overs that I''d like to see banished. ;-)

I do however, use C++ for graphics and game development, as the language is as perfectly suited for it as any I''ve seen. I prefer C++ class functionality to that of Delphi, though it''s not that greatly different. As well, the syntax seems a bit more logical to me (i.e., no need for completely unnecessary keywords or punctuation, like you find in a few instances in Object Pascal).