Irrlicht and MFC

Heroe · Post by **Heroe** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 5:00 pm

I want to programm a Level Editor. And I want to use MFC with the Irrlicht-Engine. My question: How can i view a Irrlicht Window in as a window as in other 3d level editors. (no split screen!) i hope you understood my question because of my bad english..........

keless · Post by **keless** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 9:35 pm

I dont think it is possible to merge IrrLicht with MFC the way you are talking-- since to start using IrrLicht, you have to let it create its own device window.

I dont know of a way to share your MFC's hDC with IrrLicht, so I doubt its possible. But I am somewhat new, and Sai or Boo or Niko may be able to help you better.

Boogle · Post by **Boogle** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 2:35 am

keless is right, however you could modify the engine source code and set it up so you could use the MFC's hDC. Probably pass it as a parameter in the createDevice. It'd probably be quite a bit of work and research into the irrlicht code, however. Seems most of the Windows code is in CIrrDeviceWin32.cpp.

niko · Post by **niko** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 9:51 am

Another possibility would be to design the interface of your editor to have independent windows. Like Delphi once had. This would be possible without changing the code of the engine.