Irrlicht in VB - is it possible?

puh · Post by **puh** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 3:58 pm

Hello,
could you please clear for me is it possible to use all functions of Irrlicht.DLL in VisualBasic? (This is the only one language I know, it's too bad for me, I know)
Maybe someone tried it already? Would be great to hear about it.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 10:50 am

I think this would be impossible without getting somebody to write some wrapper for Irrlicht, as VB can only access static functions, and Irrlicht uses quite a lot of classes, which are not supported by VB in this way. It would surely be possible to create such a wrapper, but you'll loose the simplicity of Irrlicht I suppose...

puh · Post by **puh** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 12:22 pm

After some research I found that using VB with Irrlicht.dll can be done with calling COM methods. Unfortunately I have no expirience with such kind of interaction.
But it's good chance for me to start learn C++...
Thanks anyway.

Jailbird · Post by **Jailbird** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 1:19 pm

i'm new to c++ too @ puh. but luckely, the irrlicht engine is not that difficult

puh · Post by **puh** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 1:30 pm

You are right, Jailbird. Engine itself looks nice and pretty easy to use.
That's why it could be great to port it into VB...