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Dark GDK / will DarkGDK have a help system like DarkBasic?

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i cant believe its not fabio
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Posted: 9th Jul 2007 10:09
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I'm a newbie and to many C++ gurus out there this may sound like a pain in the butt, but i feel it would be tremendously helpful to have not only syntax description but also code snippets illustrating the use of each command. Will that be possible in the future?
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Daggeth
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Since all commands behave exactly like their DBPro versions, you can read the DBPro help files.. download the trial version.
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Mmjack
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I Think there are Helpers in visualC# Atleast in the 1 ime using If u type oDB iT Comes up with a list of them and the syntax they are using in
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jason p sage
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I think that samples won't come in the near future - but if you can Read DBPro, and know how to things like looping, if statements etc in your prog language of choice - you should be able to translate most DBPro snippets pretty readily.

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i cant believe its not fabio
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I guess you are right, i didn't realize how similar the commands were to DBPro, i just thought it would have been handy to have a little enhancement to the help file included with Dark GDK. I guess the help system within Dark Basic kinda spoiled me :-P
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If you search the DBP forums, you'll notice a few (undesirable) coments on the DBP help system.

It's bugged, missing vital info and files, source examples don't work or are corrupt, the list goes on. Weve been prommised a beter help for ages now,(a mighty Oak could grow quicker), still waiting.

I'd suggest purchasing the Hands On DBP books, there basicaly what the help should be. from what I know DarkGDK has GDKin front of the DBP commands. eg. GDKWait Key instead of Wait Key

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i cant believe its not fabio
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Quote: "I'd suggest purchasing the Hands On DBP books, there basicaly what the help should be. from what I know DarkGDK has GDKin front of the DBP commands. eg. GDKWait Key instead of Wait Key"


As a programming newbie, often i'm forced to take examples literally as well as coding styles, which leads me to try similar experiments... unfortunately, thou i was under the same impression initially, the adding of GDK in front of each command doesn't make up for syntax modification from Basic to C++...

I haven't tried yet, but i'm wondering if those code translators out there really work... might worth a try at this point.
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jason p sage
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Um - I have DarkGDK - and ... welll - I've never seen a code translator work well enough where you want to keep the code for more than a reference if you get stuck on a specific syntax.

My current project is DBPro - but I've played with DarkGDK enough to know that 1: It works pretty good from my testing which isn't close to complete. 2: Seems very smooth 3: Is ALOT of work to convert existing projects.

I'm currently enjoying the RAPID development of DBPro in my game and with that its still a lot of work and compiles pretty fast (I compile and compile and compile...) In C++ - it takes a bit longer (for me) to get things working and compiling takes longer - so - slower development - but I'm still a newbie here for this.


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