RE: DirectX7 and Learning

["Curt Sovak" <curtisjl@mb.sympatico.ca>]

DirectX wasn't introduced for VB until DirectX7 I believe.

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From: gameprogrammer-owner@gameprogrammer.com
[mailto:gameprogrammer-owner@gameprogrammer.com]On Behalf Of Tim Elder
Sent: January 30, 2000 1:21 AM
To: gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com
Subject: Re: DirectX7 and Learning


I've just got the book "Inside DirectX" by Microsoft Press and it's awesome.
It comes with the DirectX 5.2 SDK and plenty of examples etc. I would
recommend it for a beginner cause that's what I am.

Unfortunately, all of the examples are in C++, I don't believe that there
are any VB samples other than in the v7 SDK.

Hope this helps,

Tim

<<< "Steve Tranby" <stevemt@hotpop.com>  1/29  2:30p >>>
Hi,

1) I was wondering if directx7.0 sdk is the best to get right now or if i
should get DX6 to program with for the time being until they perfect 7.0.

2) Do you think that VB is a good platform using directx7.0?  I am very
fluent in VB6 , but not so well in C++.  I am trying to learn windows
programming in C++ right now and was wondering if it would be better to
learn directx for VB or C++

3) (last)  Would you say I should learn the core language and functions of
Directx or should i get a wrapper to get started.  That way i could get
something accomplished quicker and then learn the innards for tweaking and
optimizations.

Thanks by the way i program in ( VB6, QBASIC, C, win98 C (little), C++
(standard[no win]),perl,java,javascript etc.)

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