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[Dev-C++] Graphics Library

From: Esteban V. <est...@ho...> - 2003-07-20 19:52:23

Hi, anybody knows if there is any console graphics library for (DOS mode)
just like the old BGI mode from Borland ?

thanks, Esteban


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Esteban Valverde
est...@ho...

[Dev-C++] Graphics Library

From: Scott S. S. <age...@co...> - 2003-07-22 22:53:45

Hello. I have been trying to make the leap to game programming. 
However, I find OpenGL and DirectX very difficult. Does anyone know a 
good graphics library that is easier then these two? It would also 
help if you knew where to get tutorials for the library you reccomend. 
Also, does anyone know where I can get some good tutorials on Windows 
XP programming?

~~Scott Simontis~~
Programmer

Re: [Dev-C++] Graphics Library

From: Zodiaq <zo...@ac...> - 2003-07-23 00:05:04

Hello Scott and all Dev-C++ users,

Wednesday, July 23, 2003, 12:53:37 AM, Scott wrote as follows:

SSS> Hello. I have been trying to make the leap to game programming. 
SSS> However, I find OpenGL and DirectX very difficult. Does anyone know a 
SSS> good graphics library that is easier then these two? It would also 
SSS> help if you knew where to get tutorials for the library you reccomend. 
SSS> Also, does anyone know where I can get some good tutorials on Windows 
SSS> XP programming?

I'm not a game developer, first I have to finish more important
things, but I'm going to be one... for you I propose to focus on
OpenGL as it is portable - many different OS uses it... yeah, it is
hard - at least as I noticed it while looking at some sources... but
there are few quite interesting helps for you - for example there is
ogre - this is AFAIR some kind of simplied interface to OpenGL... just
chech sourceforge (look for ogre)... the second think the best
tutorials with lots of source code are on nehe.gamedev.net - extremly
usefull and all about OpenGL - I know that when I start seriously
coding engine this portal will be my starting page - just check it
out... maybe bare OpenGL (without ogre) won't be so scarry...

Last thing - programming only for Windows XP?? AFAIK there is no big
difference - just themes... huh, more then themes if you want to get
deeper insight... If I were you I'd downloaded Platform SDK (the best
available, twice a year [or more] updated help form M$ about EVERY
aspect of Windows - including:
Access Control
Active Accessibility
Active Directory
Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI)
Active Server Pages (ASP)
ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
ADO
ADSI
ASP
Authorization Manager
Automation
Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)
BITS
Bluetooth
CDO
.....
I have just coppied till letter C what is insight... imagine how much
there is more... get it from here for FREE (only one really free stuff
from M$)

http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdk-full.htm

if you decide to program Direct X then you HAVE TO have this baby:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/directx.asp
click DirectX 9.0a SDK

-- 
regards, Zodiaq

Re: [Dev-C++] Graphics Library

From: Yeoh H. <ye...@ye...> - 2003-07-23 01:58:21

Scott Simontis SIMONTIS <age...@co...>
wrote:
> Hello. I have been trying to make the leap to game programming. 
> However, I find OpenGL and DirectX very difficult. Does anyone know a 
> good graphics library that is easier then these two? It would also 
> help if you knew where to get tutorials for the library you reccomend. 
> Also, does anyone know where I can get some good tutorials on Windows 
> XP programming?
> 
> ~~Scott Simontis~~
> Programmer
> 

You might want to check out SDL.

Here are some details from its readme file.

The Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL for short) is a cross-platfrom library
designed to make it easy to write multi-media software, such as games and
emulators.

The Simple DirectMedia Layer library source code is available from:
http://www.libsdl.org/

This library is distributed under the terms of the GNU LGPL license:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html


I've tested SDL 1.2.5 and it works well with Dev-C++/MinGW and Visual C++.

Best Regards,
Yeoh
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Free downloads for Dev-C++ users at http://www.yeohhs.com

Re: [Dev-C++] Graphics Library

From: xRxIxPx <xr...@gm...> - 2003-07-23 07:28:40

At 18:53 2003-07-22 -0400, Scott Simontis SIMONTIS wrote:
>Hello. I have been trying to make the leap to game programming.
>However, I find OpenGL and DirectX very difficult. Does anyone know a

You usually find OpenGL difficult at first, but if you do not try to have 
everything used by your program, it actually is very simple. You could 
maybe start off in 2d mode and then go to 3d mode. But a major profit of 
OpenGL is portability and raw speed.

Good tutorials can be found at

http://nehe.gamedev.net

(Well the only thing is, that I haven't found out yet how to use the glAux 
library with MinGW).

>good graphics library that is easier then these two? It would also
>help if you knew where to get tutorials for the library you reccomend.
>Also, does anyone know where I can get some good tutorials on Windows
>XP programming?

Re[2]: [Dev-C++] Graphics Library

From: <lis...@da...> - 2003-07-23 10:27:49

Hello xRxIxPx,

Your Message: (Wednesday, July 23, 2003, 9:29:24 AM)

x> (Well the only thing is, that I haven't found out yet how to use the glAux
x> library with MinGW).

This is what I did to get glaux running on Windows
DevC++/mingw. Beware: I'm a total C newbie, so this might
actually break something. Be sure to make backups of the files
you replace.

Go to opengl.org, download the windows API (or take this link:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe )
It's probably a good idea *NOT* to to extract anything but the
libraries and headers from this file as your graphics card
drivers probably installed faster/optimized versions of the
DLL files.

From the zip's include/gl subdirectory you take glaux.h and copy
it to your compilers include folder (include/GL).
For some reason all DevC++ libraries are named libXXX.a where
XXXX is the name of what it *should* be called (but who am I to
complain about naming conventions). Anyway, in the zip folder lib/
there is a file called glaux.lib. Rename it to libglaux.a and
copy it to your compilers library path.

I also did the same with gl.* and glu32.*. Not sure if that was
neccessary so I suggest you try it without those first.

Hope that helps.

-- 
Best regards,
 Dennis                            mailto:lis...@da...

Re: [Dev-C++] Graphics Library

From: Yeoh H. <ye...@ye...> - 2003-07-21 11:33:11

----- Original Message -----
From: "Esteban Valverde" <est...@ho...>
To: "dev-cpp" <dev...@li...>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 3:51 AM
Subject: [Dev-C++] Graphics Library

> Hi, anybody knows if there is any console graphics library for (DOS mode)
> just like the old BGI mode from Borland ?
>
> thanks, Esteban
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> Esteban Valverde
> est...@ho...

Yes, there is port of Borland's BGI to Windows. I've downloaded WinBGI
sometime ago.
Unfortunately, the WinBGI package does not contain the .a file for use with
Dev-C++/MinGW.

But I've tweaked the WinBGI source codes a bit and managed to build
libwinbgi.a.
Also, the original source for bgidemo.c from Borland is also included in the
package.

I've created two Dev-C++ projects:
1. To build libwinbgi.a from the source.
2. To build testwinbgi.exe from bgidemo.cpp (I've re-named bgidemo.c to
bgidemo.cpp)

I've zipped and uploaded Dev-C++/MinGW port of WinBGI in this file:
http://www.yeohhs.com/shareware/winbgi_DevCpp.zip (file size: 42.5KB)

Please note that there were several warnings during the builds of both
libwinbgi and bgidemo.cpp.
However, the test program does work.
Also, I've not tested WinBGI thoroughly. :-)

You can download WinBGI from here:
http://www.garret.ru/~knizhnik/lang.html

I hope this helps.

Best Regards,
Yeoh
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Re: [Dev-C++] Graphics Library

From: Michal M. <mol...@se...> - 2003-07-21 15:35:29

or you can simply download WinBGI as a DevPak through vUpdate (it is 
there under the name CLGDI)


Yeoh HS wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Esteban Valverde" <est...@ho...>
> To: "dev-cpp" <dev...@li...>
> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 3:51 AM
> Subject: [Dev-C++] Graphics Library
> 
> 
>>Hi, anybody knows if there is any console graphics library for (DOS mode)
>>just like the old BGI mode from Borland ?
>>
>>thanks, Esteban
>>
>>-------------------------------------------------
>>Esteban Valverde
>>est...@ho...
> 
> 
> Yes, there is port of Borland's BGI to Windows. I've downloaded WinBGI
> sometime ago.
> Unfortunately, the WinBGI package does not contain the .a file for use with
> Dev-C++/MinGW.
> 
> But I've tweaked the WinBGI source codes a bit and managed to build
> libwinbgi.a.
> Also, the original source for bgidemo.c from Borland is also included in the
> package.
> 
> I've created two Dev-C++ projects:
> 1. To build libwinbgi.a from the source.
> 2. To build testwinbgi.exe from bgidemo.cpp (I've re-named bgidemo.c to
> bgidemo.cpp)
> 
> I've zipped and uploaded Dev-C++/MinGW port of WinBGI in this file:
> http://www.yeohhs.com/shareware/winbgi_DevCpp.zip (file size: 42.5KB)
> 
> Please note that there were several warnings during the builds of both
> libwinbgi and bgidemo.cpp.
> However, the test program does work.
> Also, I've not tested WinBGI thoroughly. :-)
> 
> You can download WinBGI from here:
> http://www.garret.ru/~knizhnik/lang.html
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Yeoh
> --