Category Archive: Programming
Musings about programming, mainly covering C# and C++, sometimes related to game development, sometimes not.
Feb
27
2013
Why you should Indent with Spaces
Jul
24
2012
Simple Main Window Class
Here’s another fairly trivial code snippet. I’ve stumbled across some borked attempts at initializing and maintaining rendering windows for games lately. Most failed to properly respond to window messages, either ignoring WM_CLOSE outright or letting DefWindowProc() call DestroyWindow() when WM_CLOSE was received, thereby not giving the rest of the game’s code any time to cleanly …
Jun
23
2012
Thread-Safe Random Access to Zip Archives
Jun
18
2012
Ogre 1.8.0 for WinRT/Metro
Jun
15
2012
Code Better: Headers without Hidden Dependencies
When you work on a larger project, you cannot easily keep track of which header depends on which other header. You can (and should) do your best to keep the number of other headers referenced inside your headers low (to speed up compilation) and move as many header dependencies as you can into your source …
Jun
12
2012
How to Delete Directories Recursively with Win32
Well, while I’m at it, here’s the counterpart to the recursive directory creation function from my last post, a function that recursively deletes a directory and all its contents. Ordinarily, you could just use the shell API to achieve this on classic Win32: /// <summary>Deletes a directory and everything in it</summary> /// <param name="path">Path of …
Jun
12
2012
How to Create Directories Recursively with Win32
As I just found out, the CreateDirectory function on Win32 can only create one directory at a time. If one, for example, specifies C:\Users\All Users\FirstNew\SecondNew as the directory to create, and both FirstNew and SecondNew do not exist, then CreateDirectory() fails. That’s less than ideal for some cases. Recently, for example, I wanted my game …
Jun
04
2012
Visual Studio 2012 Express – Metro Only?
Apr
07
2012
Perfectly Accurate Game Timing
Mar
29
2012
Ogre 1.8.0 RC1 for WinRT/Metro
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