The Big Programming Thread - Page 228

On January 09 2013 08:51 NukeTheBunnys wrote:
Im looking to do some c++\openGL game related programming. Does anyone have any suggestions for a cross platform library (or libraries) that can do windowing, input, and sound. And before someone says I should use an engine like Unity, or a different language - half the point of doing this is I'm interested in the low level game systems like managing the input/threading/audio streams

Windows APIs (not multi-platform, but oh well - I can encapsulate the code anddeal with porting the code if I ever want to port it)
SDL - started working with it but had some troubles getting it set up on windows and visual studio, but otherwise it looks like it would meet all my desires.
Allegro - can be used with openGL, but the documentation of using allegro with openGL (2d or 3d) is pretty sparse

I have also considered using openAL for 3d positional sound, but that will likely come after I get some of the other systems working

Anyone have other suggestions, or experience with the mentioned libraries.

On January 09 2013 12:29 DEN1ED wrote:
Just had my first day of my first programming class today. Loved it and already did the assignment that is due next week and I kinda want to keep going and doing more. It was just the most basic assignment to print text. Is there a good place that has tutorials and stuff to keep learning more? A lot of the links of the front page seem broken. Learning java fyi.

System.out.println("Hello World");

On January 09 2013 12:37 nunez wrote:


i know Qt provides what you are looking for.

On January 09 2013 12:29 DEN1ED wrote:
Just had my first day of my first programming class today. Loved it and already did the assignment that is due next week and I kinda want to keep going and doing more. It was just the most basic assignment to print text. Is there a good place that has tutorials and stuff to keep learning more? A lot of the links of the front page seem broken. Learning java fyi.

On January 09 2013 13:32 Pigsquirrel wrote:


Not quite. Qt is a widget framework (and a lot of other crap). It's really meant for developing desktop applications. Skype, for example, was done in Qt, and Every Kapplication in KDE uses QT.

If developing desktop apps is your goal, then a widget framework is for you, though I'd recommend GTK2 because it's the One True Framework.

On January 09 2013 14:06 tec27 wrote:

That's not really true any more. The version of Qt that just came out (5.0) is very intended for embedded and mobile application development, and has very heavy integration with OpenGL to accomplish that. The widget framework in it is only a very small part (and a quickly diminishing part) of the library. It could definitely accomplish what NukeTheBunnys wants, but I think it might abstract too many of the lower level details that he'd like to work on himself.

On January 09 2013 12:29 DEN1ED wrote:
Just had my first day of my first programming class today. Loved it and already did the assignment that is due next week and I kinda want to keep going and doing more. It was just the most basic assignment to print text. Is there a good place that has tutorials and stuff to keep learning more? A lot of the links of the front page seem broken. Learning java fyi.

On January 09 2013 13:32 Pigsquirrel wrote:
Raw, straight-up, unadulterated SDL really seems like what you want right now. It's very basic - it just gives you access to a screen to draw on and input sources. Everything else - threading, object management, datastructs - is up to you. I'd recommend starting with 2D at first.

On January 09 2013 14:06 tec27 wrote:

That's not really true any more. The version of Qt that just came out (5.0) is very intended for embedded and mobile application development, and has very heavy integration with OpenGL to accomplish that. The widget framework in it is only a very small part (and a quickly diminishing part) of the library. It could definitely accomplish what NukeTheBunnys wants, but I think it might abstract too many of the lower level details that he'd like to work on himself.

Is there a code for that? Maybe something like "insert (number of records in database +1)"...
IDK why it doesnt do it automatically if its set in a relationships...

Dim PersonID As Integer
PersonID = DMax("[PersonID]", "Person")

With rs
.AddNew
.Fields!PersonID = PersonID
.Fields!Email = Email
.Update
End With
...

Ahahaha well it works! Just I have to have an entry already existing in the database otherwise it won't accept NULL.
And the first entry accepted has the same ID as the previous initial one. but maybe i can add a +1 somewhere

' Set the current Database
Set db = CurrentDb
Set rs = db.OpenRecordset("Person", dbOpenDynaset)


'tell it where to put what
With rs
    .AddNew
        
        .Fields!FirstName = FirstName
        .Fields!Surname = Surname
        .Fields!AssociationID = Association
      
        
        .Update
        End With

'Now that we've created the person, get the PersonID (should always be the last Person entry)
Dim PersonID As Integer
PersonID = DMax("[PersonID]", "Person")


'Insert rows for each child table
Set rs = db.OpenRecordset("Email", dbOpenDynaset)

With rs
.AddNew
.Fields!PersonID = PersonID
.Fields!Email = Email
.Update
End With

Set rs = db.OpenRecordset("HomeNumber", dbOpenDynaset)

With rs
.AddNew
.Fields!PersonID = PersonID
.Fields!HomeNumber = HomeNumber
.Update
End With

Set rs = db.OpenRecordset("MobileNumber", dbOpenDynaset)

With rs
.AddNew
.Fields!PersonID = PersonID
.Fields!MobileNumber = MobileNumber
.Update
End With