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- From: sac46826@csus.edu (Mike)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Visual C++ graphics capabilities?
- Date: Sat, 09 Mar 96 20:52:19 GMT
- Organization: California State University Sacramento
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- I would suggest you wait for the Direct3d API coming out in a few months.
- This API is part of the DirectX package which you can obtain from Windows95
- Game SDK books out on the market.
-
- In article <4hokdl$qvs@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, rapaielli@aol.com (RAPaielli)
- wrote:
- >I am an experienced C++ programmer, but I have never done any graphics,
- >and I would like to do what amounts to analytic geometry with animation
- >and interactivity.
- >
- >I recently bought Visual C++ 4.0 and I am starting to learn it, but I am
- >still confused about whether it makes sense to use MFC or whether I should
- >buy some other software product if I want to do graphics programming at an
- >intermediate level or beyond.
- >
- >I have drawn my first ellipse using the MFC CDC class, for example, but I
- >would like to be able to rotate it arbitrarily and I haven't figured out
- >how to do that.
- >
- >Your response will be appreciated.
- >
- >Russ Paielli
-