Elysian Shadows

So I finished my first game, a pong clone, and was going to post it here and hopefully get some feedback. However, I built it with Visuall C++ Express and am not having much luck figuring how exactly I need to go about compiling into something that I can distribute. I've found limited info on how to...

I just built my first game ( Pong clone, no segfault w00t! ) in SDL. It is actually the first API i've worked with so far so I have very limited perspective, but I found it really easy to work with. I did a little work with Allegro ( tried some tiling, blitting and display options ) and watched Lusi...

MarauderIIC wrote: Maevik, !cin is shorthand for cin.fail() (or !cin.good(), perhaps)

Good to know, thx.

LusikkaMage wrote:
/pessimism with a vengeance.

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I'm still waiting on this moment myself, I would like to know though:

What were you working on when it clicked? What concepts were you finding dificult before that came into focus?

MarauderIIC wrote:Maevik, thanks but already posted http://elysianshadows.com/phpBB3/viewto ... 402#p35402

Ahh, ok. I didn't realize !cin worked the same way. If you use this method, do you still need cin.clear() and cin.ignore() ?

Another good way to make sure you're getting a number is to use if( cin.fail() ) with a flag loop and a "Try again retard" message that prompts them again. int main() { double a = double(); bool again = true; while ( again ) { cout << "For the quadratic equation, please enter to value...

I highly recommend SDL for a well documented, beginner input/media library. Its very straight forward and has a strong set of community tutorials (google lazyfoo). http://www.libsdl.org I can't say it's the best because it's all I've used so far, but I'm learning it as my first library and using la...

That's awesome! Congrats man.

Thanks guys, all of this was really helpful.

I think I'm gonna have screen be a global for a few programs, then start putting that into an object also.

So I'm working my way through Lazy Foo's SDL tutorial and I found something in the code that suprised me. Hopefully someone can clear this up for me. In his tutorials he usually creates global variables for images, which is fine, but since I am still learning I'd like to stick to OO design as much a...

This is helpful. I need to book up on string stuff I guess.

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Anyone mind running this through in nub_cake terms?

Ok, I remember reading on arrays being pointers now that you bring it up. Does this mean that arrays essentially cannot be passed between functions? At least not without adding them to the heap?

EDIT: Sorry, about the pointers. Trying this with pointers gives me an error for the value being passed, not returned... Exact error: Error 1 error C2664: 'ljustify' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'char (*)[20]' to 'char *[]' Exact Code: #include <iostream> using namespace std; void ljustify(char...