About MS's free VC 2005 decision...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 8:15 pm

i dont care, visual c++ 2005 express is so freaking cool!! i even send him some data when i installed it and registered (you dont have to, my own decision).

if you get something for free, you could at least give something back. so i gave them the useless information they wanted.

i think more and more everyday that visual c++ is the best f*cking piece of software on the whole planet

ps: does anyone know if i can use irrlicht with the windows forms? i mean a .net2 app with irrlicht inside, like an editor. if not, i start crying because that would suck like hell!!!

cpprules · Post by **cpprules** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 8:45 pm

GFXstyLER wrote: i think more and more everyday that visual c++ is the best f*cking piece of software on the whole planet

Have to agree with that.
First i thought that VS sucks, and i was using DevC++. But soon...
My skin started to turn red...
My soul started to burn...
And i liked Visual C++

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 8:47 pm

My skin started to turn red...
My soul started to burn...
And i liked Visual C++

looool !!!

SomeGuy · Post by **SomeGuy** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:13 pm

Yeap. Plain nutz. Dudes, I was only trying to give you a small impulse to open yer eyes and say "NO" to the chip (and/or any other wierd mass devices promoted by MS or any other company for that matter)

Bye

BTW VC++ does not suck. VC++ IDE SUCKS

cpprules · Post by **cpprules** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 12:57 pm

VC++ IDE !SUCKS

boboS · Post by **boboS** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 2:32 pm

ps: does anyone know if i can use irrlicht with the windows forms? i mean a .net2 app with irrlicht inside, like an editor. if not, i start crying because that would suck like hell!!!

Is posible (as I saw in the win32 example ) but I dont know how.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 2:53 pm

i already got it to work and its really nice

i just tried it and did some research about windows.forms. if someone needs a tip on how to do it, drop me a line

boboS · Post by **boboS** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 3:04 pm

Well I also tried doing this..... and no result.
So....I need a tip!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 5:47 pm

so well, here you go:

1. load your windows forms project in VC++
2. create a panel where you want to draw irrlicht in. you can also draw irrlicht in the main panel (which is what i do) but it does not work if you create irrlicht on application start. you have to wait until the main window is created and the n use irrlicht with it. but this is not a problem since i do not load irrlicht on application startup, but when "File/New File..." is clicked.
3. for irrlicht you have to specify a HWND to draw in, which you dont have in windows.forms. so you must take a certain object where you want to draw irrlicht in and take its handle, like this:

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irr::SIrrlichtCreationParameters param;
param.WindowId = (s32)yourobject->Handle.ToPointer();

// for the main window this would be:
//param.WindowId = (s32)this->Handle.ToPointer();

4. then continiue loading irrlicht like in the win32 tutorial. here is an example of how to load it:

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// put this somewhere in the class 
IrrlichtDevice* RenderDevice;
IVideoDriver*	VideoDriver;
ISceneManager*	SceneManager;
bool		RenderingEnabled;


//put this somewhere in your class, too:

private: void initIrrlicht()
{
	if(!RenderDevice)
	{
		irr::SIrrlichtCreationParameters param;
		param.WindowId = (s32)this->Handle.ToPointer();
		param.DriverType = video::EDT_OPENGL;

		RenderDevice	= createDeviceEx(param);
		SceneManager	= RenderDevice->getSceneManager();
		VideoDriver	= RenderDevice->getVideoDriver();

		RenderingEnabled = true;
	
		while (RenderDevice->run())
		{
		if(RenderingEnabled == true)
		{
			VideoDriver->beginScene(true, true, SColor(255, 255, 0, 0));
			SceneManager->drawAll();
			VideoDriver->endScene();
		}

		Sleep(1);
		}

		RenderDevice->closeDevice();
		RenderDevice->drop();
	}
}

i put a "Sleep(1);" in the while loop because then the editor takes only 1% cpu usage, which is good because you dont want an editor to run on 50% cpu usage all the time.

now make a button for example with the label "Start Irrlicht" and make it load "initIrrlicht();"

last note: when you do an editor its better for you to create a few classes because if you put everything in one .H file it will get messy pretty soon.

hope that helped you

boboS · Post by **boboS** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 7:18 pm

Thanks man, you're the man, man!

BillGaytes · Post by **BillGaytes** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:57 pm

If you hate me, why have you chosen my compiler and IDE?...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 3:52 am

THe code seems to compile fine, but I keep getting a linker error when setting the device:
device = createDeviceEx(param);

The error is:

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irr-win32.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "class irr::IrrlichtDevice * __clrcall irr::createDeviceEx(struct irr::SIrrlichtCreationParameters const &)" (?createDeviceEx@irr@@$$FYMPAVIrrlichtDevice@1@ABUSIrrlichtCreationParameters@1@@Z)

I am pointing to the correct headers and libraries (0.14.0), it is driving me crazy.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 4:07 am

I should have posted that the peram is a "lable" container.

Quall · Post by **Quall** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 4:09 am

god damnit. I keep forgetting to log in. THe container is not a label, it is a panel.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:18 am

i got that too. it seems that some microshit stuff is also named "param" so change the name of the SIrrlichtCreationParameters to _param or parameters and the linker error will be gone