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cella —
I do apologize for my lack of knowledge in advance. Recently I started programming, and I was casu…
Dawoodoz —
Assert is not useful for division by zero checks, because of the low chance of being caught in deb…
Ah I see!
We don't control when Windows will switch between the two buffers. And there is no guarantee with …
On day 29 at 19:49 minute mark, @cmuratori says, that because the patblt happens before the stretc…
Quick sanity check for my mouse selection process and a question about ray casting in general: I'm…
Thanks for this. I can really see myself using it more often than the normal array view.
It is written in pretty much same style as games, running "main loop" as fast as you can: As long …
I don't think 4coder does anything special for latency. But there are some think you can do. Have …
cella —
When you type, the input is displayed on the screen instantaneously, without any noticeable delay.…
@William thank you. This worked. I should have read the docs more thoroughly.
Dawoodoz —
My project blog is also unable to make new threads, nor commenting on the old ones. Not sure if th…
William —
It looks like the flAllocationType parameter is wrong for VirtualAlloc. "Attempting to commit a sp…
Yeah so I wrote the following: I am attaching 2 files showing the success and error runs in visual…
Could you make a small and simple reproduction case that we could try on our end to be sure it's n…
I am on windows10 and virtualAlloc fails with error code 487 (accessing invalid memory address) wh…
Dawoodoz —
Android (since the Lollipop version) is based on NSA's Security Enhanced Linux, which creates one …
This post is mirrored on my blog. In the late 1950's, Lisp was invented, which used the S-expressi…
Max —
Interesting, so I could just include glcorearb.h or glext.h in both the platform code and game cod…
APIENTRY things will be defined by opengl headers. So if you include gl.h/glcorearb.h/glext.h or s…
Max —
Hello, I have been trying to work on some small projects using some of the tools I learned in Hand…
I did not know I could do that! Good stuff. Thanks!
You don't need two uv's because you can get them from size & offset (where glyph is located in atl…
Quick update. First, thanks for the reference app, @OliverMarsh! I haven't reviewed it yet (probab…
What does a sandboxed app-based model look like? And how much will it be different compared to the…
What does a sandboxed app-based model look like? And how much will it be different compared to the…
Dawoodoz —
Microsoft introduced sandboxing in Windows 8, which was called "Metro Apps", but nobody wanted to …
Miles —
Thanks for letting me know, I'll fix those warnings in the next release and test builds with /W4 g…
The big thing that windows could do is move to an sandboxed app based model like how phone apps wo…
Windows does not really care and does not want to prevent you from running programs by default. Al…