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by colbsure
Mon Oct 27, 2008 5:35 am
Forum: Latest Release Information
Topic: Dev questions
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Are you saying that MFC is preventing you from locking a D3D surface?

by colbsure
Mon Oct 27, 2008 5:11 am
Forum: Latest Release Information
Topic: Dev questions
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I know that both of you will be aware that optimization should be carefully targetted and the performance of the UI isn't an issue here. Not by a long shot. On this basis, fiddling around with the existing UI becomes wasted effort. Effectively, you are running on the spot to implement personal prefe...
by colbsure
Mon Oct 27, 2008 4:46 am
Forum: Latest Release Information
Topic: Dev questions
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Win32 is "Clean" says Mr Mudlord... "Exactly" concludes Mr Leonhart.

 

Your exact meaning evades me. Though I think I understand the bigger picture.

 

Take it easy,

Col

by colbsure
Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:35 am
Forum: Latest Release Information
Topic: Dev questions
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Using Win32 would be pretty masochistic. MFC isn't pretty but it saves you from writing a huge amount of boiler-plate code.

 

Cheers,

Col

by colbsure
Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:05 am
Forum: Latest Release Information
Topic: Dev questions
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i want to get away from MFC, and get WTL or Win32 type interfaces, that'd remove the restriction of having to use MSVC

 

If, by WTL, you are refering to the Windows Template Library then using this will not free you from MSVC as it builds on the microsoft ATL libraries.

 

Cheers,

Col

by colbsure
Fri Oct 17, 2008 6:37 am
Forum: Latest Release Information
Topic: Dev questions
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Thanks very much for the source: I've just grabbed it and added in latest versions of zlib and libpng, then grabbed SDKs for OpenAL and DirectX SDKs.   Quickly got myself a debug version built, linked and working - I'll have a proper look when I get home later. Is there a wishlist for the UI?   I ...
by colbsure
Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:59 am
Forum: Latest Release Information
Topic: Dev questions
Replies: 24
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Hi,   I'm new here but have used VBA in numerous incarnations over the years.   Programming is both my job and my hobby and I'm wanting to build up the sources of VBA-M to take a look to see if the core is really as unstructured as is often described!   I'm curious about a few things: is all of t...