http://www.mvhsbreakers.com/junk/walk.exe Hi everyone, and I'm sorry for all of the posts in the last few days... I'm trying to port one of my projects into C++, and I'm having some difficulties doing a few things that i was able to do very easily in C#... (btw, I'm using C++ Builder) first, in C# i was able to turn on my double buffer in one line of code:

private void InitializeComponent()
{
			// 

			// WinForm

			// 

			(...)

			SetStyle(ControlStyles.DoubleBuffer, true);

now, i've done a very extensive search on google for assistance with this, but i just haven't had the luck... any help would be greatly appreciated... oh, i don't even know if the way i'm drawing my sprites onto the screen is any good, so any advice on that would also be appreciated... i've got a timer, an imageList and a paintBox on my form... every time the timer ticks, i draw the first image on the imageList onto the paintBox, and every time the timer ticks again, i print the next image from the list (onto the paintBox)... also, at the beginning of every onTimer call, i "repaint" the paintBox... that way, when i move my character (imageList) into a new position, the old one isn't printed with it... so that's about it... it flickers too much, and i'm wondering if that's cuz i don't have the double buffer turned on or something... thanks! [edited by - pimple on April 11, 2004 1:11:21 PM]

I''m not sure that a ''paintBox'' exists in standard C++ or MFC. What sort of control are you using for it?

There''s a set of double-buffering commands in the Win32 API (SwapBuffers() being the important one) but I believe they''re meant for OpenGL only.

hi again... um... i''m switching to C++ because, well, there''s a couple of reasons actually... first, i''d been reading books and teaching myself soem c++ for some two years... then i started writing commandline games and pretty much just starting to program games... then i went to school last fall, and i took a cs class... much to my surprise, they taught C#... i hadn''t really heard much about C# up until then...

well, so since we were using C# for our projects, i decided to start using it primarily... i learned a lot in that class, specially things i hadn''t learned previously using C++... so then i decided to stick to C#, since i realized i was more confortable using it rather than C++...

anyhoo, so i got this tile based game going, and i''m just trying to port it to C++ so people can play it if they don''t have the .net framework... not only that, but i just wanted to get back to C++ a little bit... i guess i miss it for some reason o_O

anyhoo, i''m not using openGL, directX or any other graphics library... just straight C++ (and whatever is in C++ builder), just because that''s how i wrote my original game (in C# builder)...

about the paintBox... well, i don''t really know much about it myself... i''m only using it because i thought it''d be better to use a paintbox canvas to print my images, rather than using the form itself... so like i said, when the timer ticks, i refresh the paintbox, and draw the imagelist:

imgSprite->DrawOverlay(pbScreen->Canvas, X, Y, A, 1);
// A = spriteIndex; "animation"

o_O

thanks...

cool... so yeah, thanks all of you guys for all of the replies... i guess i''m just gonna go ahead and do some reading on openGl or something... thanks again and have a great day!

^^

well, on my games written in C#, i use that property for the double buffer and i also always use this:

SetStyle(ControlStyles.AllPaintingInWmPaint, true);

i don''t know, my game doesn''t flicker one bit, but maybe it''s because of the latter property being set to true...