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If you are a game programmer working for a gaming company, a real one, then you most likely have skills that are better than other average software positions.

I say this because A) Game...

thanks for the input! I'm planning on either putting some kind of background picture behind the playing surface, or using those black spaces on the bottom left and right to store some kind of...

Red Diamond offers two bets and is dealt from a single deck of cards.

Each player and the dealer will receive one card. The deck will be shuffled after every hand.

Basically there is a main...

Hey everybody.

I doubt any of you know me, but I am a long time reader, and a short time poster.

I've been working on a pretty big project for a company called Silak Gaming. It will eventually...

Well for me, it isn't possible to write nothing for a big project.

Design and formulas I almost always have to write out on paper first.

I think something important you could include is that...

a little off topic but i would be willing to pay money if someone can tell me how to clean up the function "LoadFromFile", from the VCL library.

I've been working as a programmer for a year, and had 3 years of computer labs in college before that.

The documents for both were pretty much the same.

PRE GAME DEVELOPMENT:

1. Game...

Nope, haven't fixed it yet :(

Need 2 more semesters for a Computer Engineering degree, but I have a full time job as a game designer so I'm not gonna be going back any time soon to finish my degree :)

http://www.delphifaq.com/faq/f100.shtml

im getting closer! Even though that is delphi it still helped me get a little closer.

Now I am about to test a version using a fix which I think might...

Ken, thanks alot for your reply. I was thinking about this problem all day yesterday even though I was off of work, and you read my mind, only a little better.

I did an experiment and created a...

ugh working all day on this and no solution.

What would be a good way to observe the memory usage as I load different files at a time?

iMalc, I'm a little confused on how to use that line of...

um, lol, nevermind hehe. :D :D :D

Thanks for the help guys.

The "LoadFromFile" function is found in the Borland Library. Yes I know this is probably a horrible way of doing things.

Thanks for the code iMalc. I will try that...

else if (age >= 26 && age <= 50) {
cout<<"Demetri : I remember those days.\n";


lol those days? How old are you actually lol.

Okay I have narrowed down my problems. I know, I know, I am not the best coder. But here goes:

To change pictures in my game, I am using LoadFromFile().

ex:


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if ( answer == "yes" )
{
cout << "Yes";
}

else if( answer == "no" )
{
cout << "No";
}

wow. believe it or not this helped me alot, thanks.

still confused on this lol. I have spent a good deal of time trying to figure it out on my own, im not just coming to you guys for help first.

if anyone's done this or knows at least the "link...

In another topic I was trying to figure out why my program would not run on Windows 98. After doing much research, I believe the problem may be with UNICODE, and the steps to fix it are located...

Oh, okay thanks alot. I will be searching as we speak.

I will also be installing builder on one of the computers with 98, and running a build on it to see what happens.

Thanks again for the...

Thanks for the quick replies!

From what I have found is that there are alot of API functions that aren't supported by Windows ME or earlier versions of Windows.

I've been to the MSDN site, I...

Hello. I'm new to the boards, but a long time programmer.

I'm creating a card game using C++, and unfortunately I cannot go into any details or post any code on the game because of contracts I...

Hello all! :)

I used this site a couple years ago when I was getting started in c++ and general programming, and am returning to help out others and hopefully be helped a little.

Just a...