A gentle critque..

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"sailormoontw" <sailormoontw_member at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
news:e4aac7$2dm3$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
> For example, about the DirectX Wrapper what I can find the latest one is 
> one in
> a Japanese site. http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA031566/d_direct3d9/, 
> I've
> searched the D Forum and there seems no newer version of DirectX wrapper. 
> I
> downloaded the hdk library, and when I linked the library with its sample 
> codes,
> the optlink fails with a runtime exception. I know it must be the version
> imcompatible, and then, I try to recompile the source. Not only did I find 
> some
> codes need to rewrite but after all the codes seemed fixed to get a 
> successful
> compilation, some the samples still cannot run at all. I find its for the
> mqoreader.d, but should I spend time to debug it??
>
> Nope, it's hard to debug other's code, and I can feel the frustration of 
> the
> author of hdk for the frequent changing of D. I think that's the reason he 
> or
> she stopped upgrading. And if I want to upgrade the codes, I think I will 
> face
> the same problem, and not to say there isn't a good debugger to help.
>
> Well, maybe I should not choose DirectX, SDL with derelict library seems 
> more
> stable and ready. I still hope there is a good DirectX wrapper to use...

I wrote/am writing a DirectX9 engine called nonagon, you can download it 
here:  http://jamesdunne.no-ip.org/nonagon/projects.php.  It has, among 
other things (like an engine ;) ), a fairly up-to-date, if somewhat 
incomplete, conversion of the D3D9 and D3DX9 headers, as well as the DInput 
headers.  It's based on the June 2005 release of the DX9 SDK, so it's a 
little behind, but not much has changed in the SDK since then.

The libraries that come with the DX SDK are not compatible with D, as jcc 
alluded to in his post.  You must instead (as nonagon does) use the 
libraries created for Borland compilers, as that's the format that the D 
linker understands.  The libs included with nonagon are those Borland-style 
libs.