Re: [GP] Help! Making game engine

[Kevin Jenkins <gameprogrammer@rakkar.org>]

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I'm referring to the number of fields of the structure that you use.  Like
DX will often have you create a structure with 20 fields of which you set 2,
and then pass the address of that to a function.  According to code complete
that function should instead just take those 2 parameters.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Brown" <enliten@btinternet.com>
To: <gameprogrammer@topica.com>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 2:55 PM
Subject: RE: [GP] Help! Making game engine

I think this refers to passing structures, not address of structures which
DX passes.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Jenkins [mailto:gameprogrammer@rakkar.org]
Sent: 29 March 2004 23:23
To: gameprogrammer@topica.com
Subject: Re: [GP] Help! Making game engine

It's still that way :)

I was reading Code Complete, published by Microsoft Press, and it says not
to pass structures unless every parameter is used, unless you are at 12+
used parameters if you didn't use that struct.  So they violate the
programming principles of even a book they published.

> I say stay away from directx because my experience with it has been that
it
> is unecesarily complicated, full of strangely named classes, with
strangely
> named function parameters and class members and function parameters which
> you have to look at the docs to learn that they arent even used (?). a
total
> pain in the ass to initialize crap and nothing really made much sense.
> Atleast thats how it was in DX 7 and 8, not sure anymore but im guessing
it
> hasnt changed that much.

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