Word to create the essays and reports.

Duke Nukem 3D to make myself feel better after getting the grades back.

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Tobii Rex gaming idea - 1st player Medusa game. Combine with kinect technology to roam about/shoot arrows and turn that sissy Perseus to stone.

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posted by Int64

http://msdn.microsoft.com/it-it/visualc/bb496952.aspx

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auto& fields = jobject.fields();
auto iter = fields.find("id");
if (iter != fields.end())
    id = static_cast<int>(iter->second.as_double());

The field map is implemented as stdext::hash_map - wonder why no std::unordered_map?

posted by Int64

One comment - is there a reason why the field/key operators in the json::value class only return by reference and not by const reference as well?

Something like this:

void kung_foo(json::value const& jobject)
{
    int id = static_cast<int>(jobject["id"].as_double());
}

won't compile.

posted by Int64

1) On the main page, scroll right so that something like the "Shows" group is near the middle of the screen. The horizontal scrollbar position should be about 2/3rds of the way across now.

2) Click on one of the items in the Shows group.

3) Once the item is opened, click the Back button.

When you return to the main page, the horizontal scrollbar is reset to the far left position when, in my opinion, it should be at the same place it was at the end of step 1.

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15 hours ago, DeadX07 wrote

Switching back and forth from Metro to Classic desktop takes almost 2-3 times as long to do the same old tasks, and is unproductive and intrusive in that regard.

What is it specifically you're switching from/to? (which apps/services)

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What's the future plan, to attack Apple using a Little House on the Prairie parody?

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Is there a table anywhere that lists all the classes/algorithms/etc. that have been added to the std:: library?

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http://www.boostpro.com/download/

3 hours ago, C64 wrote

BTW: Does it work properly with Unicode characters? I see your code uses std::string, it would be good if we could safely use it with Unicode filenames. Or does Boost.Filesystem use UTF-8 as Unicode encoding instead of UTF-16, so std::string is OK in this case?

Thanks for clarifying this.

The path class supports multiple character types. So you can replace these:

void free_function(std::string const& file_name);
void free_function(std::wstring const& file_name);

with this:

void free_function(boost::filesystem::path const& file_name);

One function instead of one for each string type you need to support.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_46_1/libs/filesystem/v3/doc/reference.html#class-path

posted by Int64

• String Algorithms/Format (boost::format is probably my most frequently used non-TR1 feature)
• UUID
• Exceptions/error_info
• Serialization
• noncopyable
• Slots/Signals
• Threads
• checked_delete
• FileSystem/path
• Date/Time
• IOStreams/zlib support
• ASIO (networking)
• Test (Although, I actually prefer UnitTest++ for unit testing)

I'm off to try mapped files, something I can use that I wasn't aware of - thanks Thomas.

7 hours ago, Deraynger wrote

Some general questions:

How would you return the vertices vector to an OpenGL function? What I do is (don't have it here, but somehow) something like:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

inlineconst vector<vert3>& Verts( void ) const {     return_vertices; }   // Somewhere in loop code glDrawElements( someVal, someVal, someVal, &myObj->Verts()[0] );

Why not just return the pointer?

vert3 const* Foo::vertices_data() const
{
    if (_vertices.empty())
        throw std::runtime_error("See Effective STL, item 16");
    return &_vertices[0];
}

...

Foo foo;
vert3 const* data = foo.vertices_data();

posted by Int64

MFC - I think it's the best c++ option when you want an app that looks and feels like a Windows app. As others have said, the big problem is the code feels too non-standardish and outdated. I think even Qt suffers from this, but not quite to the same extent. It would be great to see std::containers, algorithms, etc. used in the MFC library, as well as some refactoring to use some of the current popular design patterns. (say, MVC)

C++0x - My guess is that it will be a good 3+ years before you can write code that's truly transparent across the major platforms/compilers, and I don't really see the point in writing C++0x based code until then. (I can get by with current standard + boost for now)

But, since you are looking for input, the items I prefer from the new standard are the ones that decrease verbosity - initializer lists, range-based for loops, constructors calling other constructors, data member initialization, etc. The less typing, the better IMO.

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