So Im finally done and don't know where to start...

**why06** · 03-22-2010

I finished debugging my console menu. It seems to work fine. As far as I can tell at least, however I think it is sturdy enough to begin building in the D3D. Here is how I was planning to do it:

Much like my console menu uses cout I was planning to develop a kind of D3D printing class that would automatically handle spacing, new lines, colors, etc.

The Print class would be like the interface between my menu and D3D. You would pass it a pointer to the D3DDevice and it would create an array of different fonts to choose from that can be selected by passing the font type ("arial", "Times New Roman", etc.) as an argument as well as a color argument

DPrint::Println("what to print","font", color); //would print a line and then drop down to next line

DPrint::Print("what to print","font", color, y, x); // will print at which ever y and x coordinate
//if you do not specify x it will draw at current x value set. same for not setting y

... also thinking of adding some more functions, like box drawing etc.

Anyway that's what Im thinking about now. I will make the class and start experimenting on a D3D9 environment. If anyone has any suggestion or advice I would appreciate it. Or even features I could add in a later release.

I am going to finish this. I already have 750 lines of code written, but hopefully sometime soon I can actually demonstrate a successful conversion to D3D.

Well with that out of the way. I am releasing the console menu now. It is full working code. I know most of you won't be interested till I get the D3D finished. Im not really too afraid of getting my code jacked. Since most noobs couldn't figure out how to convert this to D3D. If your interested take a look. Any criticism is welcome. Im not going to explain everything yet as that would take a while, so Im putting off a formal explanation till my final release.