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Cauldron Initialization GDI Version
First I start off with a personal experience.
First instancing everything(graphics device,parameters,content manager,and the main form)
did not quite work. The values ended up null. I noticed inheriting the class GDI Form(similar I forgot!)
Would make the class(magically perhaps..) turn into a form! Now the problem was
everything is Nothing(the default value in VBNET).
So I looked through the classes, and did some
debugging. Mainly looking at the locals. You can get to the locals by pressing alt and navigate to the
debug menu and hitting enter on locals. Also setting breakpoints here and there.
So I went and looked at how some other game engine boots.
They seem to boot with a module. With a string as the argument or parameters
. So with that knowledge made a class inheriting GDI game.
Then override the subs. By typing override then the list of subs
appear. Now once you overridden the essential subs, or all of them.
Either one will work but to initialize the engine only 4 or 5 are needed.
Back to the module a sub taking a string as argument and
instancing the main game class.(In the scope of the sub.)
Then with the variable you should have a run sub if not you inherited
the wrong class. Type variable name and dot and run.
Back to the class that inherited GDI Game. Make a global variable
not just any global variable a private one! In the overridden
Initialize sub make an instance of graphics device manager.
Pass in Me as the parameter.(There is a variable named graphics device manager make the variable equal the new instance.) Then type me and dot.
Then type s you should be brought to the services property which is read only.
Before you do anything with the service right under the instance of Graphics Device Manager
use the variable not with code(Laughter.) Type dot then find the create device.(Sub or function me have forgotten). Ok so the Graphics device is in services so is the form and something else.(Again forgot debug or something to find out.). Back to the service property in
Me. Add a service by typing me dot services dot add service.
Use Get type to get the graphics device manager type.
Its in system name space and can be used by typing get type the shift plus
9 and zero keys. Anyway in those two is the type of which needs to be determined.
That was for the first argument, now the instance of graphics device manager is suitable for
the last argument. All of the service related code is in initialize sub and under
the instance of graphics device manager including the sub or function to create the
device. You should get a black screen now.
To set the window title , use the window property.
There is a graphics device property and a graphics property in graphics device property.
Summing up initialization of Cauldron GDI. Not sure how many ways this can be
done the first method, instancing everything may work I just stopped and worked
on inheritance, it has something to do with polymorphism and is one of three parts of
OOP
First I start off with a personal experience.
First instancing everything(graphics device,parameters,content manager,and the main form)
did not quite work. The values ended up null. I noticed inheriting the class GDI Form(similar I forgot!)
Would make the class(magically perhaps..) turn into a form! Now the problem was
everything is Nothing(the default value in VBNET).
So I looked through the classes, and did some
debugging. Mainly looking at the locals. You can get to the locals by pressing alt and navigate to the
debug menu and hitting enter on locals. Also setting breakpoints here and there.
So I went and looked at how some other game engine boots.
They seem to boot with a module. With a string as the argument or parameters
. So with that knowledge made a class inheriting GDI game.
Then override the subs. By typing override then the list of subs
appear. Now once you overridden the essential subs, or all of them.
Either one will work but to initialize the engine only 4 or 5 are needed.
Back to the module a sub taking a string as argument and
instancing the main game class.(In the scope of the sub.)
Then with the variable you should have a run sub if not you inherited
the wrong class. Type variable name and dot and run.
Back to the class that inherited GDI Game. Make a global variable
not just any global variable a private one! In the overridden
Initialize sub make an instance of graphics device manager.
Pass in Me as the parameter.(There is a variable named graphics device manager make the variable equal the new instance.) Then type me and dot.
Then type s you should be brought to the services property which is read only.
Before you do anything with the service right under the instance of Graphics Device Manager
use the variable not with code(Laughter.) Type dot then find the create device.(Sub or function me have forgotten). Ok so the Graphics device is in services so is the form and something else.(Again forgot debug or something to find out.). Back to the service property in
Me. Add a service by typing me dot services dot add service.
Use Get type to get the graphics device manager type.
Its in system name space and can be used by typing get type the shift plus
9 and zero keys. Anyway in those two is the type of which needs to be determined.
That was for the first argument, now the instance of graphics device manager is suitable for
the last argument. All of the service related code is in initialize sub and under
the instance of graphics device manager including the sub or function to create the
device. You should get a black screen now.
To set the window title , use the window property.
There is a graphics device property and a graphics property in graphics device property.
Summing up initialization of Cauldron GDI. Not sure how many ways this can be
done the first method, instancing everything may work I just stopped and worked
on inheritance, it has something to do with polymorphism and is one of three parts of
OOP
