Is the DX8.1 AppWizard worth using?

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Started by Normie March 22, 2002 10:00 AM

5 comments, last by Normie 22 years, 1 month ago

Normie

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March 22, 2002 10:00 AM

God knows other ''wizards'' make some icky, icky things... is it worth using this one? -Normie the Infinitely Clueless

I am a devout follower of the"Lazy Programmer's Doctrime"(tm)...and I'm damned proud of it, too!-----"I came, I saw, I started makinggames." ... If you'll excuseme, I must resume my searchfor my long lost lobotomy stitches.

Laurent

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March 22, 2002 10:20 AM

The AppWizard is dealing with all the initialization stuff, window and device creation.

You will save a lot of time using it.

Laurent - http://www.lafaqmfc.com/
My little game: http://www.lafaqmfc.com/home/play_starshooter.htm

zilch_

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March 22, 2002 10:26 AM

Another posibility is creating your own classes for setting it up. You do it once, and you learn how it works.

zilch_

zilch_

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March 22, 2002 10:27 AM

(Contrary to: You have no clue what the code created does, and you lean nothing, and you rely on other peoples code)

zilch_

IndirectX

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March 22, 2002 02:15 PM

I''m using MFC and therefore already have a framework. So I "adapted" the MS code to work with MFC. I also have a nice plugin architecture, where I write a plugin dll to do just the stuff I want and my driver exe does the dirty work.

---visit #directxdev on afternet <- not just for directx, despite the name

VBCoder68

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March 22, 2002 10:48 PM

Where do you download the DX8.1 App Wizard from? I''ve never heard of it.

Pactuul

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March 23, 2002 01:15 AM

I highly suggest using the directx appwizard, esp if your new...You can gain a lot of insight on how to setup stuff, esp the network...

I created a tetris like clone (in 3d) with network play in about 2 weeks (with a few breaks here and there

)

it gives you action mapping (changing the keys on the fly), network, sound, music, graphics, 3d models, etc...all in one nice little paackage.

P.S. you can find the appwizard and other little goodies here :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?URL=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/MSDN-FILES/027/001/775/msdncompositedoc.xml

[edited by - Pactuul on March 23, 2002 2:17:40 AM]

-Pac "The thing I like about friends in my classes is that they can't access my private members directly." "When listening to some one tell about their problem (whether it's code or not), don't listen to what went right or wrong, but what they assumed....."

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