Some questions about C++

[Exodust]

Ok, in school i do computer programming, i get the basis on it, and im doing wonderful.
we do stuff such as

void main ()
{
int blah =0;
}

But im wondering, how can i insert images? When i run it it opens CMD and it displays the program. Im wondering if You can make games with images?

I might sound like a noob, but some explination is greatly appreceated.

Thanks!

 

[Daevius]

You can load images with C++, but its best to use a library for that. SDL is very fast for 2D images.

Take a look at my tutorial http://forum.ragezone.com/f144/c-sdl-opengl-tutorial-set-up-basecode-eg-games-305051/, but you probably only need the SDL.

Lazy Foo' Productions has a wide variaty of SDL tutorial

Good luck

 

[ghell]

Yea SDL is pretty good for making 2D games in C/C++ (I usually recommend pygame, the python bindings for SDL, for beginners) however, you should probably stick to ANSI/ISO standard C++ (main should return int, usually zero for success and non zero for an error) if you want your code to work outside of visual studio.