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scott wrote:
>> For example, both JBuilder and VS put the opening bracket of a
>> function on the same line as the function declaration, rather than on
>> the next line where it belongs.
>
> In VS Express (the free one):
>
> Options -> Text Editor -> (Language) -> Formatting -> New Lines ->
> "Place open brace on new line for xxxx" where (xxx) is a number of
> different options. Feel free to tick all these (actually they seem to
> all be ticked by default, it's the style I prefer too).
When I looked at this stuff, there were 3 different options you could
select. I tried all three, and none of them did what I want. (Curiosly,
there didn't seem to be an option for "disable all autoformatting and
just let me do it by hand".)
> Why don't you just spend 5 minutes setting the options to your preference?
As I say, when I tried it there wasn't much you could adjust.
>> Maybe it's because I've never written any of these things, but I can't
>> imagine what (for example) two games would have in common. (And hence,
>> what you'd put into a template.)
>
> Err, the headers and namespaces for graphics, audio and input libraries,
> build processors set up for graphics files, meshes, sound files etc, a
> game loop with empty functions for you to add your game logic and
> graphics code, pre-existing code for initialising the graphics API and
> painting the updates into the window each frame, a framework for adding
> "components" to your game that can be easily enabled/disabled and
> automatically called/rendered, etc.
Now, to me, that sounds like it's just going to build a bunch of
boilerplate code for how the designers invesage a game would be
structured, and if you want your game structured a different way you're
going to have to waste time deleting the template stuff and rewritting
it the way you want it.
Similarly, I obviously haven't written many games (currently at zero and
counting), but I would have hoped that "initialising the system" would
already be a fairly painless task. (Isn't this what we have libraries for?)
I'm not quite sure what "build processors set up for graphics files,
mashes, sound files etc" is supposed to mean.
> Just download VC# and XNA and ask it to make a new "Game" project -
> there's a lot of useful common stuff in there that makes your job way
> easier.
Well, yeah, there is always that. (Although not understanding C#,
presumably none of it will make sense anyway...)
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