Re: [Plib-users] Visual Basic

[Stuart M. <stu...@bl...>]

Hi Sherif,

I too have no real knowledge of VB, but if you are looking for where to 
start then you need to give some more information e.g.
1) Are you an experienced programmer, complete beginner, somewhere in 
between?
2) Are you using VB because you know it well? Or for some other reason?
3) What are you trying to achieve? Would you be happy with a simple 
pacman game? Are you wanting to do something much bigger?
4) etc. etc.

Because depending on the answers to things like this (and may other 
things) my advice would be vary greatly.

   Regards,

Stuart.


Sherif Omran wrote:
> Hello John,
>  
>  Thank you for your warm welcoming and email. Yes it is possible to 
> call C++ functions, if they are packed in a dll. Is PLIB a dll?
> It would be a little bit difficult at the beginning but once they are 
> mapped to a VB module, then i can deal with it, but actually i don't 
> know where to start for game programming and what tools do i need 
> because when i search online i get lost.
>  
> Could you please lead me?
>  
> kind regards,
> Sherif
>
>
> */"John F. Fay" <joh...@cy...>/* wrote:
>
>     Sherif,
>
>     Hello and welcome to the PLIB community.
>
>     PLIB is written in C++. Early on, the owner decided that he would
>     keep it
>     in that language, so there are no plans for the PLIB community to
>     write
>     wrappers for other languages.
>
>     That said, I have no knowledge of Visual Basic. If it is possible
>     to call
>     C++ functions and declare C++ objects in Visual Basic programs,
>     then you
>     can probably use PLIB. Otherwise you may wish to look elsewhere.
>
>     - John
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: Sherif Omran
>     Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 5:38 AM
>     To: pli...@li...
>     Subject: [Plib-users] Visual Basic
>
>     Hello all,
>
>     is it possible to use the plib with visual basic under windows,
>     and if
>     not what do you suggest?
>
>     thanks
>     Sherif Omran
>