Last time I was just starting to build a Window wrapper class to use in C++ projects. As I started digging deeper though and implementing more features I was greeted with this: Yep, good old Windows Blue Screen of Death. Fortunately I only managed to make it happen four times although once it was enough…
After getting my system all setup and ready for C++ programming, it was time to start actually having something being displayed to the screen. In order to do that on a Windows Box, you’re going to need a window. There are a variety of sites out there that will get you up and running pretty…
Background: Feel free to skip this part if you aren’t interested in why I’m blogging about this and just want the info. First a little bit of background. I learned Visual Basic, Java and C in Highschool. Those were my first forays into the world of programming and sparked my interest for making things…
I ran into a frustrating problem the other day while working on some client work. While attempting to register a font with Flash at runtime I was getting the following error: Error #1508: The value specified for argument font is invalid. Let me describe the situation. With the sites I’ve been working on recently we…
Lets say you’ve got a grid based game and you’re using a path finding algorithm to get from cell A to B. You’re making path finding calculations several times per frame, and its starting to become a burden on your processor. You know your path finding algorithm is reasonably optimized and you won’t get huge…
