Consider the following code, which might be part of a custom Font class to draw fancy text. Looks good, right? Parameters are clear, order makes sense, and it’s easy to understand what the code does when you find it invoked: No need to go searching for the function implementation, or hovering over using the IDE
This post is kind of an open question. I’m hoping that I can get some comments, any comments, on it 🙂 Let’s set up a situation with a problem, and look at different solutions for addressing the problem. Which one do you think is best, and more importantly, why? The Setup There is a multithreaded
So, using thread Suspend and Resume functionality is deprecated in Delphi, Freepascal, and even Windows MSDN itself warns against using it for synchronization. There are good reasons for trying to kill this paradigm: suspending and resuming other threads from the one you’re currently on is a deadlock waiting to happen, and it’s typically not supported at all
In Windows Vista and earlier, the operating system managed a list of audio (playback) devices, and one of them was always specified as the ‘default’. This is how audio devices may have looked on such a system: Speakers (Default) USB Headset Realtek rear audio jack Applications using Windows’ built-in sound functions such as PlaySound() always
This topic seems to come up quite a lot, and yet the majority of the time, there’s no clear answer. Take the scenario: you have a game or an application, and there’s some downtime. You’ve noticed in task manager that your apps remains at a high CPU Usage% even while it’s not doing anything, and
A short and simple post for today. Playing a video file in Freepascal, without using Lazarus. I honestly couldn’t find any examples on the internet of how to do this, so I made one. The DirectX9SDK has examples of how to use DirectShow/ActiveMovie to play back video files in C++, however, the common version of
When your project is nearing completion, it’s time to look at optimization. For Direct3D, this typically means grouping and reordering of things to make the hardware work as efficiently as possible. For Direct3D 9, Microsoft have published a handy guide of things to look at optimizing here. But it’s interesting to look at the difference these