Have you noticed that there are tons of questions about directDraw on the boards, but not much on directinput and directsound. Do you think this is because everyone finds these components much easier tham directdraw. My theory is that alot of these game programming newbies never make it past directdraw, and get tired of it. But don''t take my opinion as bible. Any more comments??? -David

For one thing, DirectDraw is more complex than both DirectInput and DirectSound, as far as I know. DirectInput is pretty easy, because all you have to do is set it up to retrieve from the keyboard or mouse and get the key presses as required in your program. DirectSound isn''t too bad either.

Martin