RE: [GD-General] dev environments

[Philip H. <ph...@me...>]

> Mostly interface building and maintenance issues (once you build the 
> interface, you can change it later trivially as long as you 
> adhere to the 
> MVC paradigm...I never found AppWizard to be nearly as good in that 

In that case it probably wouldn't benefit me as much as it does you. I
don't find MFC gets in the way, building and maintaining the GUI for the
tools is a relatively small part of tool development for me. 

> >Similarly there's many types of game where it's inefficient to run 
> >cross platform on the Mac.
> 
> Er, maybe console games, 

Exactly, I didn't phrase that very well, sorry.

> >That depends entirely on your GUI library, if the desktop 
> can give you 
> >lots of windows or high resolution then what's to stop the 
> game doing 
> >the same?
> 
> Most games create a single window and operate within it.  Windows 
> specifically is architected around the MDI paradigm so 
> writing multi-window 
> apps that don't exist inside a parent workspace is not commonly done 
> (obviously it CAN be done, but most sample code and docs 
> don't go out of 
> their way to illustrate this).

Windows has been moving away from MDI for some time (Word defaults to
non-MDI mode for example) and there is a lot of support but as you say
it's not publicised very well. I suspect Windows users are used to MDI
so want to stick to it. 

Phil