I spent yesterday looking at *alot* of people''s different standard window/DirectX setup code and they all take a slightly different approach. I was wondering if anyone knew of a Microsoft-approved or industry-standard basic Win32/DirectX app? Basically, what all do I need to handle to be a well-behaved full-screen/windowed app using D3D8? I.e., what style of window should I be using? What exactly should I be checking for as far as messages go? What is the *correct* way of handling ALT-TAB? etc... I''ve gotten the impression that the DXSDK has a "basic" Direct3D application, but I''ve not dug it up yet and I''m wondering if it''s a straight-C app or an MFC app (I''m assuming MFC)? Thanks for any info, I''d be happy with some URLs to anyone''s favorite "basic Win32/DirectX app" also...

Thanks, LonelyTower... I just made the assumption that the common D3D framework would be too closely tied to MFC to be useful... but it looks like it''s not (wel, at least not that I noticed).

That was probably most of the info I needed... FYI for everyone, it''s located in \mssdk\samples\multimedia\common\src\d3dapp.c. Basically, all my questions were answered there.

Though, I''d still like to hear about anyone else''s favorite boilerplate app...

Lets just say if your getting pissed off at your own program your doing it wrong

Some basics apply, allow the user to multitask even though he shouldn''t. an annoying bug with this is when DirectInput keeps going even when the window is out of focus. a message handeler and a global variable fixed this. loosing textures is another problem, so increment a glbal variable everything this happens and thgen check this before drawing something to reload the surfaces

I bet there is no standard, everyone does it their own way, just like DOS!