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Hi thank you for the response back by the way I’ve been using C++ for the past 3 years now with Allegro, SDL, Direct X 9.0, and Open GL.  You are right though there are people who start higher then they should I started with a Visual Basic 6.0 class in Jr. College.  And I then found Jonathan S. Harbour had a book on making Video Games in that program.

I moved up to the other programs after trying Bliz Basic3D and Darkbasic Pro then went up to C++.  I know that the economy is bad right now making it keeping a web site up is hard with the costs, so I understand closing it sadly.  I hope other people who look here on this site at least show up at his web page he teaches classes at www.uat.edu, books on his site, and has a forum there too check it out.

I know there are others who don't want it closed here besides me too.  I have not been on the page in a while, but after getting an e-mail telling me they will close down I showed up.  I pray you guys can keep the page up that or show up on Jonathan S. Harbours web page for his books and his forum at 
www.jharbour.com   

I like learning new C++ or other languages to program games on that is why I liked looking at this site sometimes to learn new things.  This will be a total bummer when it shuts down I know everyone else who looks here will think the same way.

I put on here last night about the Rock & Roll Gods or Progressive Music Yes.  And I didn't see it today everybody needs to see them next year live Jon Anderson is ill right now, so they had to cancel the tour.  But if he is better next year they will tour you should see them if you like great Rock & Roll before they die they are getting older.  And even at their ages they still kick young bands asses out there now.

Take a look at the Albums by them like Relayer, Tales from Topographic Oceans, and Close to the Edge.  They are one of the first Bands who played really long songs and influenced Rush.  Iââ,¬â,,¢ve seen them many times during the 2000ââ,¬â,,¢s and they kick everybodyââ,¬â,,¢s Butt the only band close to them right now is Rush.  And Iââ,¬â,,¢ve seen them a lot last year in fact they are all good just the same for Yes they are all good musicians.

www.yesworld.com

This is the Band below playing in 2003.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIDIQDCEulI

I found my mistake I did not start a New Win32 Console then go to Windows and Empty project.  I just went to empty project from the New I was not thinking that I had to go to Win32 at first I thought it would be just in Dos Mode and not let you click on something to add a window to the project sorry for the question.  But you guys did try to help thank you.

Yes I do I set it up the way this guy tells you on his site works fine on DirectX and Windows for some things just not this one.  I tried to set the proerties up the way she had hers, but still will not work that is why I am stuck.

http://www.burninghands.net/2006/04/01/vcexpress-with-directx-sdk/

I could unerstand if I put it in wrong, but I copied the code from her book.  And by the way it works fine when I put tried her code it makes an .exe file.  I've typed this code in before and got it to work with Dev-C++ just cannot do it in Microsoft's Visual C++ 2005 Edition I have the Windows Server SDK installed put in correctly too.  I've run some other programs in Windows and DirectX just not this program and one in my Windows book is the same. 

I thought I had to fix the Project Properties I set them up just the way hers was still not working.  I do not know if there is something else I need to fix in order to run this program correctly maybe someone knows I sent an e-mail off to the author in case she knows too.

I'm sorry I forgot the output information here it is below.

1>------ Rebuild All started: Project: TestTriangle, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1>Deleting intermediate and output files for project 'TestTriangle', configuration 'Debug|Win32'
1>Compiling...
1>cl : Command line warning D9007 : '/Gm' requires '/Zi or /ZI'; option ignored
1>winmain.cpp
1>dxManager.cpp
1>.\dxManager.cpp(63) : error C2511: 'void dxManager::drawVB(LPDIRECT3DVERTEXBUFFER9)' : overloaded member function not found in 'dxManager'
1>        c:\documents and settings\mike neiheisel\my documents\visual studio 2005\projects\testtriangle\testtriangle\.\dxmanager.h( : see declaration of 'dxManager'
1>Generating Code...
1>Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\Mike Neiheisel\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\TestTriangle\TestTriangle\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
1>TestTriangle - 1 error(s), 1 warning(s)
========== Rebuild All: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========

Hi I have done everything right got Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition to work on Windows and some DirectX projects.  But I tried to type in some code from the book Beginning DirectX 9 and it would work.  I made sure to open up the code from the book and it updated it to work in Microsoft Visual C++ Express 2005 Express Edition and it runs fine. 

Then I just copied her code from the book into my program thinking I might have typed it in wrong and it still would not work right.  I then went into Project Properties and set it up the way hers was I just opened up two programs at once to do this and it still will not work.   I want to know does anybody know what else I need to setup on this program to work on a project like this here on this site.  I say this because it does on the one from the book, so it should work correctly if setup right.

I just started learning to program in C++ I have one book on general programming in it.  And two others on Video Game Programming one by Jonathan Harbour using Allegro and the other is Sam's Beginning Game Programming.  I have learned some things on the internet too on OpenGL programming and stuff.

I just wanted to know if you guys have any interesting code done in Allegro with C++ is all.  I have done a lot of programming in the past, but with Visual Basic 6.0 and the other basic languages like Blitz Basic3D along with DarkBasic Pro.  I just downloaded Freebasic about two weeks ago have not messed with it much I need to try it too.

Oh, nothing I just like trying different languages and since it is free I downloaded a copy a few days ago tried it a little not much though.  I liked Blitz Basic3D the best out of the ones I have tried for making games.  I had a class on Visual Basic 6.0 in jr. college I used it first. 

And when I found a book on making games with it I bought it by Jonathan Harbour Microsoft Visual Basic Game Programming with DirectX and Visual Basic Game Programming for Teens.  I have used his other books too. His web site is http://www.theharbourfamily.com/jonathan/ .  And he teaches game programming at uat itââ,¬â,,¢s site is www.uat.edu .

Visual Basic 6.0 has a lot of power, but it gets hard to understand like C++ does too not as easy as the Basic languages.

Iââ,¬â,,¢ve programmed in Visual Basic 6.0, C++, Blitz Basic3D, Blitz Basic, Blitz Max, DarkBasic Pro, PlayBasic, PureBasic, Cobra, and Html.  And I think Iââ,¬â,,¢d like to try in the future FreeBasic since people are saying it is good, and try Java.