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Rosebud —
Hello everyone, I just started the "Intro to C" video and am having issues with either Visual Stud…
elle —
Because this came up numerous times during HH, I read the spec and want to share my findings. ;) A…
Zero-cost model for exceptions means that there is no additional code or performance penalty when …
Goobley —
Pointers to member functions can certainly be a little tricky however with C++11 and a mix of temp…
Another issue with C++ constructors is that you cannot return stuff from them. To fail a construct…
Dale Kim —
Maybe we should start a list or a separate thread for organizing meetups before and after the conf…
Brendon —
Thanks, I guess I missed the brackets. I thought he was incrementing it by 1 u8, not 1 asset_memo…
"Block" points to the header struct for the block -- which we use to track the size for freeing la…
If I remember correctly then that is because asset_memory_block is stored in memroy just before th…
Mattie —
Block is actually just the header for the following free space, not the free space itself. "Block …
Brendon —
Why isn't it just "Block", why the extra "+ 1"? Isn't Block the thing you want to return? Here is…
Virtual functions are the difference. In stand-alone case you'll need to make sure you call correc…
Generally speaking, any minor syntactic difference boils down to personal preference. There is ab…
I could eat some BBQ :-) I'm in Seattle from friday at 6 PM until monday morning. Any recommendati…
Use what works for you. I mean, dogmatically rejecting OOP is just as bad as dogmatically requirin…
Goobley —
Hey, (I have read the other OOP topics on this forum, and elsewhere, but none of them seemed to an…
After an unanticipated extended hiatus, the native Mac OS X port of Handmade Hero is back up-to-da…
Connor —
Thanks for the information! That's what I needed to know! PS. I have noticed that you are answerin…
DirectSound is based on C++ COM object model. This means having public abstract C++ class. And rea…
Connor —
I accidentally deleted the InitDirectSound function when converting the from .cpp to c from my fol…
Tim —
Thank you! Installing Visual Studio Community (aka VC 14.0) fixed the problem. I am now calling th…
When you add the resource you don't specify a bitmap. You specify a custom resource. In my 32 bit …
Sorry I wasn't clear. I DO have a 32bit image, made in gimp. But when I clicked add resource and t…
Ah, I assumed you already had the 32bit image. You would load that image into the resource as a cu…
@RomulusTFM It's kinda funny because when I did that I typed Bitmap when they asked me the type an…
I would look into adding the image as a custom resource. You then would use the LoadResource funct…
Oh I've come to know that from the very first moment i used it, but my previous little game didn'…
Although it's not necessarily a good idea because some anti-virus software is stupid (OK, anti-vi…
This is more of a general question and not really related to handmade hero but I hope it's ok I'm …