well.  like Tom says.  there are more documentation for C#.  Either way, I'm 
stickign with what I'm used to.

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From: "X-Sight Interactive" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] toy robbery


> Liam,
> First of all, don't put yourself down - I think you're doing very well.
> Secondly, you use vb6, and I don't know how much different it'll be with
> c++. When I tried to make my first game in vb using dx I kept getting
> runtime errors, even when comparing it with the chopper source code - I 
> was
> telling it all the sounds, but it kept saying file not found. That's
> probably why I need to learn more about it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Damien
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Liam Erven
> Sent: 29 June 2006 14:29
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> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] toy robbery
>
> dx isn't that hard.  Heck.  I use it, and I'm not all that bright.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "X-Sight Interactive" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 2:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] toy robbery
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>
>> I'm not dissing dx, but no-one can just expect me to learn a programming
>> language and just jump straight into dx - I need to learn the more basic
>> libraries first before I start jumping into things like that - that's 
>> all.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Damien]
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>> Behalf Of Thomas Ward
>> Sent: 29 June 2006 05:09
>> To: Gamers Discussion list
>> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] toy robbery
>>
>> Sigh. Damien, I think you are over doing it some. There is simply no need
>> to
>> look at every library for sound, input, etc. DX does it all and one 
>> reason
>> Microsoft wrote it was so that game devs had a one stop shop for
>> everything
>> they need for gaming sound, input, networking, etc.
>> Back When Win 95 first came out there was no universal tool like DirectX
>> Gaming used. Game companies wrote there own audio and input handling
>> libraries or used basic Windows ones. Then, MS came out with DX, and the
>> gaming comunity switched to it and made it the standard by witch all 
>> other
>> gaming libs are compared to.
>>
>>
>> X-Sight Interactive wrote:
>>> No, I'm not hesitant. Like I said I'm closer with c++ now. I just need
>>> to make sure I'm as confident with that as I am at the moment with
>>> autoit. Now that I've got an understanding about how the syntax works,
>>> I can start looking more confidently at the msdn - if I can get hold
>>> of it - and look at all the different windows libraries to do with
>>> sound, input, windows, users, kernel libraries, mci, mdi, etc.
>>> although actually mci and mdi are vb - or maybe not. See how uncertain
>>> I am about these things - I need to get started up really. It'd be
>>> interesting to see how c++ copes with com objects. I could get my
>>> software to work with jaws. And then, the big, big, massive job of 
>>> moving
>> all my software over to c++ now that's gonna be a job or two! Wo.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Damien
>>>
>>
>>
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