MFC tutorials

try
www.codegurus.com I think thats the address....
ummm for writing games MFC isn''t very good... I don''t know of anyway to use DX if your using MFC...
but for like a map editor or something it could be worth a shot...

Great Milenko

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I think from reading the post he was planning on using it for an editor.

But you could use DX with MFC without much trouble I would think... You could initialize DX using the handle from your main window... I don''t know why it would be all that much slower than just using the WinAPI.

There are a few more at

http://devcentral.iftech.com/Learning/tutorials/submfc.asp

You can also find tutorials on DCOM if anyone''s interested...

//Ksero

Actually it''s www.codeguru.com

Also, check out the MSDN online libraries over at msdn.microsoft.com for more nifty stuff.

You can, as Qoy said, use MFC underneath a DX game, in fact the DirectX Complete sample game does this, but I''m really not sure why you would want to. MFC is awesome for level editors tho.

-fel

Thanks a bunch...that should get me going, if not I''ll stick with the good ole plain-Win32 approach.

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Hiya-

Great Milenko said "for writing games MFC isn''t very good... I don''t know of anyway to use DX if your using MFC..."

You can safely ignore that. MFC is a thin OO wrapper around the Win32 API. I have written ALL my DirectX games and programs using MFC. There''s absolutely NO reason not to use it other than personal preference. I have found MFC much easier to program with. Also, just about every machine out there already has the MFC DLL''s installed.

But, if you don''t know MFC it may take a little while to get the hang of it; understand what''s really happening, etc... Once you do, though, I''m sure you''ll find it easier and more intuitive to program with.

Microsoft has a couple tutorials for MFC. "Scribble" is one of them. Definitely check out www.codeguru.com and some of the other sites in their links section. They''re out there.

// CHRIS

I know MFC can be used in conjunction with DirectDraw/Direct3D as well as OpenGL. Personally, however, I prefer using the bare Win32-API for my games. I'm not doing anything much windows related besides creating a window and getting my HWnd anyways. MFC will be for tools only.

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Edited by - Staffan on July 3, 2000 7:26:59 PM