hervens48

I posted this thread in the hope of finding some help from what i call *fellow programmers* not from some freak who thinks his the master of c++.
And if actually took the time reading my thread just so u can insult back for something i didnt know, ur the idiot. No really.
If this was real life i swear i would get a lawyer.

OpenLoop

Just because someone insulted you! my lawyer would be my word (and fist if necessary). However, given the help everyone provided in this thread, you shouldn't let one PMS andro get on your nerves
Besides, he probably was joking.

andro

I actually didn't mean to insult you. Apparently I made a poor choice when choosing a sentence to use as an example. It wasn't directed at you, whether or not it's true.

Jimbo

Oh wow, someone insulted you. Gonna sue against their first amendment rights? If this was the real world (too bad the internet isnt real... I had my hopes up), I think most people would have a hard time not laughing if you said that...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :banana:

learn to take some criticism and learn to ignore people...

hervens48

yeah its ok
*i was joking about the lawyer part*

ReggaetonKing

what is this world coming to?

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Mack1982

Suing someone seems to that lastest trend. Almost everytime I open Anadtech or Dailytech news, there is always news of somebody suing somebody else. Not to mention some reasons are really stupid,.

lectricpharaoh

The correct term is hubris. You'll occasionally see posts from new people that comment on the categories like 'Professional Programmer' and 'Programming Guru' titles you see beneath the names of some of the more knowledgeable members here, and then these members will explain that they do not think of themselves that way, and that it the forum automatically applies those titles on the basis of post count. Still, many of these members are rather knowledgeable, certainly more so than you or I, and if they are not claiming to be experts, I really don't think you're qualified. It may have been more accurate to say that you feel comfortable with console-mode stuff, and would like to start learning how to write GUI programs under Windows (and would not have drawn negative comments from other posters).

DirectX is an API (application programming interface). It is not specific to any language, though the structure does lend itself to being more easily used from C or C++ code than from languages like Visual Basic. It's also Windows-specific, and has nothing directly to do with C/C++. In fact, you'll find that many of the things you see in real-world programs (sounds and graphics, in particular) have no place in standard C or C++. Instead, such capabilities are provided through libraries specific to the OS (and often compiler) in question.

If you want to get into GUI programming, a good tutorial to start with can be found here. Before you try that tutorial, be sure you understand all the basics, including pointers. If you need to ask what a function pointer is, go back to those books you bought. Once you have the basic GUI stuff down, start playing around with some of the other Win32 API functions. Go to MSDN, and spend some time reading up on the API, and experiment with some of the functions, and don't restrict yourself to just the GUI stuff. Windows is much more than that, and there are a lot of useful API functions that have nothing to do with sounds or graphics.
They probably didn't tell you that it was 'Windows programming' because they figured it was self-evident. I mean, what did you think it was? I don't mean to sound insulting, but it seems pretty obvious that 'Win', used in the context of computers, is very likely a reference to 'Windows'. Also, since old versions (such as Windows 3.1) were 16-bit, and more recent versions (Win95 and later, as well as everything in the WinNT family) are 32-bit, the expressions 'Win16' and 'Win32' would seem to indicate 16-bit and 32-bit versions of Windows, respectively (and in fact do).

When people refer to Win32, they are usually talking about a relatively recent version of Windows for desktop PCs, but they may also be referring to other, lesser-known versions, such as WinCE (used on embedded devices like PDAs and smartphones, though it is often then referred to as 'Windows Mobile'). In the context of programming, it usually refers to the Win32 API, which is a set of functions, data objects, and other things used to request services from the operating system (such as writing to a file, or creating a window).

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ReggaetonKing

That's how it is these days. Everyone wants money and they will probably do anything, even lie, to get it.

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Mack1982

hervens48's original Post did bring an interesting question in my mind. At what point can one say that he or she knows C++, not implying mastery that is. I simply mean writing it on a resume or perhaps even writing it on this forum under ones nick.