Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus [ 2nd Edition]
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hi
I am a new member here , so greetings to you all :D
i got this book from a friend , unfortunately he had got it from some other friend .....yada yada yada .....bottom line , i dont have the disk which has the SDK , since the book uses some direct draw , which is not there in some versions ( i am not aware of them) but which version of Dx Sdk should i install , DX 7 Or Dx 8 ??
And another question being , will installing a old sdk ie 7/8 , mess with the
dx 9 which i ve currently running on my system ?
Thanks
Well i think that book uses DX 8, so i guess you should probably install the DX8 SDK if u want to follow thru Lamothe's examples. Installing an older DX *SDK* will not have any effect on the DX 9 (or later) *Runtime* so don't worry about that.
Hope i helped
Hope i helped
I'm not sure which DX version the book is using, but you can download anything on the CD from here(including the correct DX SDK): http://safariexamples.informit.com/0672323699/
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thanks , dipperdan - that does help me , i ll download the 8 sdk and install it.
wow .....CTar , thanks a million man :)
i guess i ll get started on the downloads :P
just another question , i made a brave move and already installed Dx9 Sdk ,
after uninstalling , this wont mess with the Dx 8 sdk , will it ?
man i hate formatting :(
wow .....CTar , thanks a million man :)
i guess i ll get started on the downloads :P
just another question , i made a brave move and already installed Dx9 Sdk ,
after uninstalling , this wont mess with the Dx 8 sdk , will it ?
man i hate formatting :(
you should be able to use the dx9 std with the book. to the best of my knowledge, they are backwards compatble.
Quote:Original post by Nokturnal
hi
I am a new member here , so greetings to you all :D
i got this book from a friend , unfortunately he had got it from some other friend .....yada yada yada .....bottom line , i dont have the disk which has the SDK , since the book uses some direct draw , which is not there in some versions ( i am not aware of them) but which version of Dx Sdk should i install , DX 7 Or Dx 8 ??
And another question being , will installing a old sdk ie 7/8 , mess with the
dx 9 which i ve currently running on my system ?
Thanks
2nd edition, and the firts one two uses is written using DirectDraw7 (U only need DirectX 7 SDK). But if U want using DirectInput8, sound and other (8th ver is in the book) U must have DirectX 8 SDK.
Advice: try developing your apps in Direct3D. The book "Game Programming All In One" must help U.
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@Fish Fishes : i ll check that book out for sure :)
i d like to deviate from this topic and ask you guys a compiler related question .
Well the book involves everything using Dx8 Sdk , and the Vc++ 6.0 compiler which i have has a another version of library's . Even though if i add files manually
to the project ie from the include folder of the sdk , it ends up linking to the default includes with vc 6.0 , well one solution i figured out is to overwrite the files with the ones from the sdk , is there any other way how this can be achived ??
ie , is there some option in vc++ to set the compiler include path so that it looks for the sdk path first then looks into its original directory.
i d like to deviate from this topic and ask you guys a compiler related question .
Well the book involves everything using Dx8 Sdk , and the Vc++ 6.0 compiler which i have has a another version of library's . Even though if i add files manually
to the project ie from the include folder of the sdk , it ends up linking to the default includes with vc 6.0 , well one solution i figured out is to overwrite the files with the ones from the sdk , is there any other way how this can be achived ??
ie , is there some option in vc++ to set the compiler include path so that it looks for the sdk path first then looks into its original directory.
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