| Dec. 16th, 2006 @ 03:19 am Friday night geeking. |
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Current Location: Home!
Current Mood: creative
Current Music: Suidakra - Dawning Tempest
It's been a long time since I did any proper geeking on Friday night. So I thought I would redress the balance today. A couple of weeks ago I thought that I should learn some Windows programming, so I downloaded Visual C++ 2005 Express from Microsoft (for free :-) ), and wxWidgets (for free), and I made this:
( A nice pic of my project )
It's a backgammon board that doesn't do anything yet, apart from correctly draw the start position.
I think I like Visual C++, apart from the editor (after Emacs it feels a bit clunky), but of course Intellisense is cool. The debugger is aces too! On Unix it is easier to do the old printf trick to find a bug, than to go through the pain of gdb.
Copying projects is a bit annoying too, as there seem to be hundreds of settings to change, in loads of different windows. Bah! I need a nice wizard to copy a blank project and be able to change the names of the files automatically. |
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