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The Lord sayeth:
"And now I shall impart upon thee
the truest nature of the Variable
so when thou…
Casey addresses this at the start of day 87.
Basically: it's a typo. He's casting the integer …
after a little over an hour of trying to find what I misspelled or something I find that the code…
DirectSoundCreate is a pointer (function pointer).
"DirectSoundCreate" tests if pointer is not N…
Is Casey checking two times the DirectSoundCreate? Like, checking all the function, and checking …
Kareem —
Oops, my bad. I got now after a little debugging. When uint32 vars are used, value chopping doesn…
Kareem —
Hello,
In the last few minutes of day 004, Casey switched to updating 32 bit updates instead of i…
The line is mostly just "what would I need to save if I wanted to restore the state of the progra…
well, it makes some sense, but i don't understand where you put the line. maybe it's just experie…
The idea is that anything in the transient storage can be regenerated. So if it is zeroed out, i…
Hello,
Can somebody explain to me how the temporary storage is handled? On the start of the seri…
Connor —
Authors: fierydrake, starchypancakes and myself. Thanks to MartinCohen for the stream which this …
drjeats —
On a recent pre-stream (day 204) Casey was asked about gameplay code architecture, and mentioned …
Thanks alot.
The problem is solved.
Since the functions are members of a class, they need to be called on an instance of the class (i…
Hi there...
It seems after trying different combinations and searching, I found out how to perfo…
Hi there...
I don't seem to figure out the correct syntax for calling a function that has its po…
I think I tracked down the issue.
With a game pad connected...
In handmade.cpp...
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Yes. The joystick SetCooperativeLevel uses the DISCL_EXCLUSIVE flag.
So I tried DISCL_NONEXCLUSI…
Makes sense.
I'm not worried as much as surprised. I was curious about time spent "sleeping." I …
Thanks. It is very useful.
I love Open Source command line tools.
Oh, I misunderstood what you were telling. I though game code was not processing input correctly …
I wouldn't worry about this Sleep code much. Around day 19x when working on debug UI Casey remove…
some videos to look over
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014345/I-Shot-You-First-Networking
http:…
CppCon 2014: Herb Sutter "Back to the Basics! Essentials of Modern C++ Style"
https://www.youtub…
Right. There is also a MS note someplace saying that you should not keep changing it.
- tim
RomulusTFM AFAIK, timeBeginPeriod affects the granularity of ::Sleep(). I'm only at day 19 right …