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Started by PumpkinPieman Jan 9, 2004 at 12:02 AM 8 replies 500+ views

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Jan 9, 2004 at 12:02 AM

I recently bought "Programming role playing games using direct x", and it includes the DX 8.0 SDK. When it is properly installed, the sdk files scease to exist; the computer is currently running DX8.1. If I install DX 9 sdk''s will I have any problem getting through this book? Do the DX 9 sdk''s have any reference to previous versions or just ver 9? I''m only on the 6th chapter so forgive my puzzledness.

Morten

Jan 9, 2004 at 1:41 AM

AFAIK, you should have no trouble compiling DX8 stuff with the DX9 SDK.

-Morten-

circlesoft

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circlesoft

Jan 9, 2004 at 10:18 AM

Yes, all versions of DirectX are backwards compatable. Otherwise, games made with previous versons would not work anymore.

chollida1

Jan 9, 2004 at 10:29 AM

Quick note, If you install the DX 9 SDK make sure you uninstall any previous version''s of Direct X or you''ll have troubles. They are NOT meant to co-exist on the same system.

Cheers
Chris

PumpkinPieman

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PumpkinPieman

Jan 9, 2004 at 9:01 PM

quote:
Original post by chollida1
Quick note, If you install the DX 9 SDK make sure you uninstall any previous version''s of Direct X or you''ll have troubles. They are NOT meant to co-exist on the same system.

Cheers
Chris

I''ll keep that in mind, thanks. Also, if I''m using the DX9 SDK and I''m working with DX8, where exactly can I find reference to DX8 procedures and functions?

DrunkenHyena

Jan 9, 2004 at 10:35 PM

There is an extras download that has the documentation for a few older releases in it and DX8 is one of them.

Stay Casual,

Ken
Drunken Hyena

PumpkinPieman

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PumpkinPieman

Jan 9, 2004 at 11:02 PM

Where would I beable to find that?

DrunkenHyena

Jan 10, 2004 at 3:45 PM

It''s where the other SDK downloads are on MSDN.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/directx.asp

Online docs:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/dx81_c/directx_cpp/dx8.1_cpp_start.asp

Stay Casual,

Ken
Drunken Hyena

GroZZleR

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GroZZleR

Jan 10, 2004 at 4:07 PM

Everything is referenced by number.

LPDIRECTDRAWSURFACE7 means its a long pointer to a direct draw surface, version 7 of the SDK.

LPDIRECTDRAWSURFACE3 would mean its a direct draw surface, version 3 of the SDK.

Etc.. etc..

DrunkenHyena

Jan 10, 2004 at 5:59 PM

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Original post by GroZZleR
Everything is referenced by number.

LPDIRECTDRAWSURFACE7 means its a long pointer to a direct draw surface, version 7 of the SDK.

LPDIRECTDRAWSURFACE3 would mean its a direct draw surface, version 3 of the SDK.

Etc.. etc..

That''s not accurate. In DirectDraw7 you use DDSURFACEDESC2. However you''re fairly safe in DX8+ since they realized that their old method of numbering interfaces was confusing the heck out of everyone (they only incremented the numbers what that objects/interface changed, so a lot of helper structs were quite a few numbers behind).

Stay Casual,

Ken
Drunken Hyena

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