Thread: System.Drawing - what kind of environment

  1. 07-20-2004 #1
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    System.Drawing - what kind of environment

    I'm designing a 2D game, and originally decided to do it in C++ because of Graphics libraries. I do however, vastly prefer C#, and the System.Drawing namespace andit's associated classes caught my eye, and I am now seriously considering this as a possibility.

    I've seen System.Drawing used in VB to customize a window. But will I be able to use it in a console app? I've been reading on MSDN, and while I'm not yet finished, I haven't seen anything to suggest either way.

    If anyone can recommend a particular good C# graphics tutorial, I would greatly appreciate that also.

    Thanks a lot,
    Sean.
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    You will be able to use it in a console application, but I wonder where you want to paint. A Console itself is text-based...
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    (Yes, I did completely rewrite this post after the third edit, for anyone who's wondering)

    I found a good tutorial on how to use GDI+ and System.Drawing, etc... I just have two more questions about it's usage:

    1) It's not necesarily a console application, but I want it to be full screen, like any other full screen game. Is this possible, and how?

    2) It sounds like GDI and GDI+ are the "Windows" Graphics Driver Interfaces. Does this mean my .NET program won't be able to run on other OSs using something like Mono? I had one idea about maximizing a form and removing all the exit, etc... buttons - would that make it look full screen? I was shying away from this option because that may still have the same problems of being used on Windows only.
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    Any fullscreen application, even your latest DirectX shooter is running in a window. So yes, a fullscreen window is the way to go.

    I'm not sure if Windows.Forms and Drawing are available on other platforms, the easiest way to check this would be downloading Mono and compile a smale BitBlt example form
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    Well as it turns out - GDI+ is just for windowing. Although a full screen borderless window would give me exactly what I wanted, it would remove the cross-platform functionality. DavidP (and indirectly some guys at gamedev) turned me on to SDL (www.libsdl.org), which runs on almost every OS I can think of (except DOS), including portability to old game consoles!!! That things perfect!

    Apparenty Mono is close to finishing it's implementation of Windowing to be put on a Linux platform (although there is debate as to whether or not MS can sue), and then there's also Rotor, put out by MS to run .NET on BSD OSs.
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