Well yes maybe msword and excel does have them libraries, but only because microsoft choose to make them libraries separately. The guy who's teaching me c++ says that if I were to make a game in c++, I wouldn't need to use comaudio or direct x - just the windows multimedia api. Now yes that is a library, but it's a standard windows library, it's not an add-on.
Regards, Damien -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: 19 June 2006 02:39 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Writing text adventures Hi, Damien. When you say that C++ is one self-contained program and has no "silly little libraries" you are only looking at very very very simple programs. I can garentee you that more complex C++ programs have many of those "silly little libraries." Have you ever looked at MS Excel, MS Word, MS Access, Windows Media Player, etc? Well, I can tell you there is a *.exe file, and several *.dll libraries which it depends on written in C++. Some of them are a part of the Windows OS like the Microsoft Foundation Classes, MFC, and some are written specificly for those apps. Linux applications written in C++ are no different. A text editor like gedit depends on many core GTK+ libraries, and is no stand alone application. As for .net languages being like Java that is not to far from the mark. That is indeed where MS seams to be heading for the technology. X-Sight Interactive wrote: > Sounds like it's gonna be another java language - more web than program lol. > Oh well as long as the net framework don't decide to fix my system up > with frequent and rather annoying crashes that'll eventually lead to > the confusion of the new computer technician and maybe an unnecessary > format of the hard drive and new keys for all my games then that's > fine by me. But apparently c++ is the way to go because autoit is > easily hackable for the source, vb you need all these silly extra > libraries, whereas c++ there's none of that, it's a self-executing independent program. > > Regards, > > Damien > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
