Ok, most of my learning in C++ up to this point has been done completely in either xlC or Borland TurboC++ 3.5 or basic console applications in VC++60. The book I''ve taught myself with is Object Oriented Programming in C++ Second Edition By Robert Lafore I''ve read about virtual functions and templates but don''t quite understand them. How important are they? I''m well versed in classes, OOP, pointers, streams, and arrays. I want to go onto windows programming but I don''t know where to start. Could anyone enlighten me? Lorek@elhazard.net

You can learn some basic Windows programming either in the Game Programming Genesis series on this site, or in the Basic Windows Programming tutorials on my site (in my .sig).
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WNDCLASSEX Reality;
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Reality.lpfnWndProc=ComputerGames;
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RegisterClassEx(&Reality);


Unable to register Reality...what''s wrong?
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http://0to1.org
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or

www.winprog.org

www.gameprogramming.com

that is all I can think of. Good luck.

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what are namespaces?

You can look that up easily by just typing it into google, here I''ll even find a website for you:

Go Here!

In the future, try not to post posts that you can easily find by one minute of searching on the net.

But here is my little explanation:

A namespace defines a new scope in order to eliminate name conflictions with different classes people have made for example:

  //  In foo.hnamespace foo{ class output {  int justDoIt(); };}//  In std.hnamespace std{ class output {  char* getLine(); };}  

Do you see how both of those classes are the same name? Well, if you didn''t have the namespaces there you would get a compiler error most likely. You can also resolve the scope by doing something like this:

std::cout << "Hello World!";

You can also create instances of the class using them as well. Also, the SL (Standard Library) uses namespaces quite extensively, they are all namespace std (well at least most of them).

Good luck!