Irrlicht Engine

return (ButtonStates & (1 << button)) ? true : false; If you don't know what the unary (?:), bitwise AND (&) or bitshift(<<), (>>) operators do, then you should do some more reading. Does that make sense? Actually, this code shows that you should put in button numbers 1,2,3,4, and so forth....

Would this work, placed in the loop? if((u32)joystickData.IsButtonPressed(1))                         {                                 //do action                         } Yes. The integer "1" relates to the 32 bit binary number: 0000 0000 0000 0001.. you have 31 other bits to test for ...

Check out the SJoystickEvent struct in the IEventReceiver.h file or on the API here : http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/structirr_1_1_s_event_1_1_s_joystick_event.html You basically get a 32bit bitmap in a u32 which you can poll against known joystick info. I've never done it with irrlicht, but i...

I grew up in the 8-bit era. Do I need to say any more?

Windows 8 will be useless as it is part of the pattern....

Win 3.1 = ok
win 95 = terrible
win 98 = ok
win millenium = terrible
win XP = ok
win Vista = terrible
win 7 = OK
win 8 = YOU GUESSED IT... terrible


Ever feel like you're being manipulated?

I used to use structs all the time in C but I have no luck in using them for C++. I can't see what you're doing wrong, but what I generally do these days is use a class with public methods/attributes instead. The only real difference being that class objects are always passed by reference.

In order to access the 3d hardware from a VM would require some kind of switching at a hardware level because your host operating system is currently using it. It really isn't the point of VMs.

The IGUIEnvironment docs say "Adds a mesh viewer. Not 100% implemented yet. " , which is rather cryptic.