I'm writing an Isometric RPG but I'm not using their CDXIso class because when you move the view port, it only moves in increments of the tile height/width. So I'm writing my own.

Am I cheating by using CDX? No. I think you should know how DirectDraw works before using something that compleately hides it from you. I have dabbled with DirectDraw'a "raw" APIs and I understand the princible, but for now I want to focus on writing game logic, trigger & event handlers, AI, etc. and I don't want to be bothered with pixel pushing... yet.

The other nice thing is that is you plan on porting your game do a non DirectX friendly enviroment, all you have to do write your own class with the same interface, or better, subclass CDX for DirectX games, and use a different library (subclassed) for others.

hope this helps
-OberonZ

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Does anyone still use the CDX class library? It's has many features and it has a nifty interface (as in what routines to call and stuff). It seems ideal for me since I'm more of an idea man as opposed to being a down to the metal coder.

If anyone is still using CDX, could you please sound off with like any tips you have for it or let me know if there any quirks I should avoid? And more importantly, if anyone is using it, what sort of games are you developing and how much success are you having?

The reason I'm asking about all this is because I'm signed onto the CDX mailing list, and there's absolutely NO conversation on it. It's weird... TIA

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Capt. Jean-Luc Pikachu
AOL IM: dub0neg

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Pika, pika
Capt. Jean-Luc Pikachu
AOL IM: dub0neg