Alright, I''m playing around with the different types of basecodes, and I have always liked the concepts of OOP/D. While I understand (in my eyes) much of it, I seem to have come to a bit of a...brick wall; I can''t figure out how to get at the Device Context globally, which conveniently nested inside of a class. I tried to create another class using the GL_Window class as a friend to another class and accessing it through a get_hdc() function. I can''t post the code, which probably won''t help much...but if anyone can help, please do. Have fun y''all. BTW, I''m really sleepy right now, so if any of this is...uh...incomprehensible (dictionary.com ) then say something about it and I''ll get back to you...later. "TV IS bad Meatwad...but we f***in need it"

Hi,
if you want to make a good OO Design, you need to look up the different Design Patterns.

For accessing Global Objects especialy the 'Singleton' Pattern.

I think Mr. Google will show you a lot info on that Topic.

A book i can recommend is:
Design Patterns by Erich Gamma

Lazzar

[edited by - Lazzar on February 25, 2004 6:54:20 AM]

Even though your question is a bit vague, I''ll give it a blind shot.

If your problem looks like this:

class Window{  private:     HWND Handle;  public:     HDC GetDC();   };HDC Window::GetDC(){   reutrn ::GetDC(Handle); //<-}

In the hilighted line, the :: before the function name causes the global version of the function to be called so there isn''t a clash between Window::GetDC() and WinAPI''s GetDC().

If you had something else in mind, please elaborate a little!

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Ok, I got it workin. Thanks a lot Crispy...wasn''t EXACTLY the solution I was looking for, but the concept was just about the same...I ended up using a bit of the global scope thing and static class members. I''ll look up that thing you mentioned Lazzar. Thanks!

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