RE: [Plib-devel] TuxKart on Win32 works fine

[Vallevand, M. K <Mar...@UN...>]

> 
> "Vallevand, Mark K" wrote:
> > 
> > I ported TuxKart to Win32 last night.  It was pretty easy.  It
> > is very runable at 640x480 with accelerated OpenGL on a P2-333.
> > 
> > I found a bunch of typical unix-isms and window-isms in the code.
> > This is a common one that doesn't work in windows:
> > 
> > for ( int i = 0; i < foo; i++ ) blah();
> > for ( int i = 0; i < foo; i++ ) moreblah();
> 
> Well, it *does* work in Windoze - it just doesn't work with MSVC++.
> CygWin has no problems with it.

Correct.  I made a series of MSVC++ changes.  Not just Win32.

> 
> If you'd care to post your fixes to a web site somewhere - I'll
> merge them into the current stuff.  Alternatively, if you'd like
> CVS access - let me know what your sourceforge userid is and I'll
> "make it so".
> 
> > The GLUT game mode doesn't work as advertised on my system, so I
> > hacked it to run in a window like non-win32 systems.  I want to
> > investigate this more.  It *should* work.
> 
> Yes - I'm not too sure about that code - it doesn't work
> well on all Linux systems either.

I made a simple change that works will for me.  I don't supply
the game mode string and just let the game mode code use its
defaults.

> 
> > Also, the joystick code misbehaves if you have a broken joystick
> > driver.  My WinNT joystick driver stopped reporting buttons.  All
> > buttons are set.  It might be the port HW.  I tried other sticks.
> > Anyway, after unplugging the joystick, everything works fine.
> 
> That's strange - the joystick code is just PLIB - and that's
> reported to work OK for FGFS and Tux_AQFH under Windoze.
> 
> Does the PLIB joystick test program exhibit the same symptoms?

I haven't tried it, but I have tried the NT joystick setup, and,
yes, it fails, too.  It looks like either all buttons are lit.

>  
> > I'll clean up my changes and put them, a DevStudio workspace and
> > project, and an executable Win32 Tuxkart on a website later.  Maybe
> > tonight or this weekend.
> 
> OK.
> 

http://vallevand.homepage.com/tuxkart/tuxcart.exe
http://vallevand.homepage.com/tuxkart/tuxkart-0.0.3-msvc.tar.gz

But, I forgot to include the workspace and project files.  But you
can see the code.

> -- 
> Steve Baker


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