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Forum: C++ Jan 10th, 2008
Replies: 14
Views: 1,755
Posted By jwenting
In Ur they had neither C nor C++.
Come to think of it they didn't have + either, they used other characters entirely for writing.
Forum: C++ Aug 10th, 2007
Replies: 14
Views: 3,177
Posted By jwenting
yup. typically will send a character representation of the screen (ASCII Art forever!) to the parallel port.
Forum: C++ Aug 6th, 2007
Replies: 14
Views: 3,177
Posted By jwenting
Windows might play nice and provide an abstraction layer which makes the command window perceive the mouse as a serial device, but I'm far from certain about that.
Forum: C++ Aug 5th, 2007
Replies: 14
Views: 3,177
Posted By jwenting
and what hardware architecture, what mouse (USB, PS/2, serial, something else maybe).

I've done it 15 years or so ago. At the time we had to write our own mousedrivers, was fun.
I think the disk...
Forum: C++ Jul 15th, 2007
Replies: 30
Solved: Chess Program
Views: 7,075
Posted By jwenting
And the best solution is to do both :)



Whatever it is, it's a better choice if it supports 32 bit environments as BGI is 16 bit only :)


The basic game engine should not contain any...
Forum: C++ May 6th, 2007
Replies: 6
Views: 3,750
Posted By jwenting
is the write order of the bytes the same as the read order?
Forum: C++ Mar 6th, 2007
Replies: 13
Views: 16,662
Posted By jwenting
If you talk to the consumer helpdesk or salesrep, they will indeed give you (or sell you) a ready made piece of software (which is what mom and pop want).
You'll need to dig deeper, or maybe go to a...
Forum: C++ Mar 5th, 2007
Replies: 13
Views: 16,662
Posted By jwenting
contact a service provider, they'll have APIs for you (at a price).
Forum: C++ Jan 14th, 2007
Replies: 9
Views: 3,426
Posted By jwenting
that might be easier to program, but it's not a desirable solution.
If the file gets larger it will inevitably be a LOT slower than modifying the existing file.
It could also easily lead to out of...
Forum: C++ Dec 29th, 2006
Replies: 15
Views: 3,773
Posted By jwenting
I've also seen 10+ year old software in use in even large (multinational large) companies...
So it's pretty likely that BC 4.5 is in use somewhere to this day, in a similar niche market as your...
Forum: C++ Dec 29th, 2006
Replies: 15
Views: 3,773
Posted By jwenting
and no company uses Dev-C either.
Forum: C++ Dec 24th, 2006
Replies: 15
Views: 3,773
Posted By jwenting
His problem is almost certainly not caused by using TC 4.5 (which though old is still somewhat servicable and can produce 32 bit Windows code) but by a bug in his code.
Forum: C++ Dec 22nd, 2006
Replies: 12
Views: 1,473
Posted By jwenting
you could start by reading the manual, it usually contains instructions to do things like use the product.
If you can't read, you might want to have someone sign you up for classes to learn that...
Forum: C++ Mar 11th, 2006
Replies: 8
Views: 7,492
Posted By jwenting
he does need the PSDK, as the versions shipped with VC6 are so far outdated that VC2005 will not work with them.
VC2005 requires the latest version of the PSDK.
Forum: C++ Feb 13th, 2006
Replies: 2
Solved: Best solution?
Views: 1,783
Posted By jwenting
apart from renaming the function "median" to "average" to better reflect its function?
And of course renaming the local variable "average" to something like "sum" to reflect its function.
What's...
Forum: C++ Feb 3rd, 2006
Replies: 6
Views: 1,552
Posted By jwenting
The express edition when you want it on CD costs money. Money to pay for making the CD, the box, etc., and for shipping it to the store.
Then the store will want some money for their effort.

I...
Forum: C++ Feb 2nd, 2006
Replies: 7
Views: 3,214
Posted By jwenting
if you read the book correctly you'll find out that the grade you're working with here is a single double per student, which is calculated from the total series of grades before being stored in the...
Forum: C++ Jan 31st, 2006
Replies: 6
Views: 9,347
Posted By jwenting
the compiler takes care of that for you. See the documentation on how to invoke it.
Forum: C++ Jan 29th, 2005
Replies: 3
Views: 5,399
Posted By jwenting
you're going about it wrong but you probably knew that already.

Here's what to do (I leave it to you to translate that into C++):

declare variable for smallest value
declare variable for...
Forum: C++ Dec 7th, 2004
Replies: 12
Views: 58,268
Posted By jwenting
not at all a fetish, just overused by people that read tutorials by other people who abused it :)

There can be good reason to use it, for example if you were creating a fullscreen DOS application...
Forum: C++ Dec 6th, 2004
Replies: 12
Views: 58,268
Posted By jwenting
Look at the big button on your keyboard marked "Caps Lock". Press it until the CAPITAL LETTERS go away.
Forum: C++ Nov 30th, 2004
Replies: 5
Views: 5,337
Posted By jwenting
I think you're onto something.
Where is the CTimeCard initialised?
What is it anyway? If it's a reference to something else you're calling a method on an uninitialised object which will indeed...
Forum: C++ Nov 28th, 2004
Replies: 5
Views: 5,337
Posted By jwenting
The real error will be in the InitInstance() method.
Forum: C++ Nov 20th, 2004
Replies: 9
Solved: Tower Of Hanoi
Views: 12,030
Posted By jwenting
just trying to make people think for themselves Dani... There's way too much "I don't want to think, I just want a canned solution so I won't fail my test" attitude these days.
If those people...
Forum: C++ Nov 20th, 2004
Replies: 9
Solved: Tower Of Hanoi
Views: 12,030
Posted By jwenting
or just click on the Gooooogle adds that show up in this thread for a lot of hot deals in and about Hanoi :)
Forum: C++ Nov 20th, 2004
Replies: 5
Views: 4,207
Posted By jwenting
do you know how to use interpunction?
your ramblings are completely incomprehansible.
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