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 | | From: | Bjorn | | Subject: | DLL that can create Windows | | Date: | 19 Jan 2005 08:46:34 -0800 |
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 | Where's the best place to ask this sort of question - is it here?
It's about writing MS Windows DLLs that control windows itself.
I tried posting in comp.lang.c++ but got told it was the wrong place
to list, but no-one gave me any suggestion as to where it should go.
As far as I can find, there is no MS Windows C++ development group
that is any good here.
I've tried experts exchange, but had no joy there.
Anyway, here's the question....
I was using the Irrlicht 3D graphics engine on Windows and noticed
that you only need a console application to control everything.
E.g. to create a window, all you need to do is include and link to the
irrlicht library and call one function from a console app - how is
this possible? How do you create a DLL that can open a window which is
controllable from a simple console app?
e.g.
#include
using namespace irr;
using namespace core;
using namespace scene;
#pragma comment(lib, "Irrlicht.lib")
int main()
{
IrrlichtDevice *device = createDevice(EDT_SOFTWARE,
dimension2d(512, 384), 16,false, false, false, 0);
while(1)
{
}
}
See http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/tut001.html
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| | From: | Programmer Dude | | Subject: | Re: DLL that can create Windows | | Date: | Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:04:31 -0600 |
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| Bjorn writes:
> E.g. to create a window, all you need to do is include and link to the
> irrlicht library and call one function from a console app - how is
> this possible?
Even a "console" app in Windows is running "in Windows". The entire
Windows API is available, including the part that controls windows.
> How do you create a DLL that can open a window which is
> controllable from a simple console app?
Exactly the same as you'd create any Windows DLL.
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| | From: | CBFalconer | | Subject: | Re: DLL that can create Windows | | Date: | Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:10:42 GMT |
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| Bjorn wrote:
>
> Where's the best place to ask this sort of question - is it here?
> It's about writing MS Windows DLLs that control windows itself.
> I tried posting in comp.lang.c++ but got told it was the wrong place
> to list, but no-one gave me any suggestion as to where it should go.
> As far as I can find, there is no MS Windows C++ development group
> that is any good here.
Well, I see at least 15 groups under the heading
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer. One of them is graphics.
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