1. wrapper for cards.dll
CoJaBo wrote:
> And probably wrap cards.dll too.
FWIW, I wrapped cards.dll years ago (looks like I started in 1999 and last
touched it in 2002) but didn't bother submitting it because it was so trivial
and figured that anyone else that was interested could and would do a better
job for their own purposes anyway. Besides that, I never release my stuff
like I should.
I even had animation working on Win9x but since animation got scrapped with
XP, I also scrapped it (the functions are still there but they do nothing
because the card-backs are different). The problem with cards.dll for
Windows is that it basically only draws cards and card-backs. That's it,
nothing else. I added some dealer.e stuff but wasn't satisfied before I
got bored with it.
I'll look at it again, clean it up some and submit it unless someone else
beats me to it. Like I said, wrapping cards.dll is trivial. Enhancing
it to be useful is where the work is.
I also did some work with an *old* lib called qcard32.dll (google it). It
has more functionality (than the windows version) that I tried to emulate
before I got bored.
-- Brian
(now starting to transform this stuff to current win32lib standards)
2. Re: wrapper for cards.dll
Brian Broker wrote:
>
> CoJaBo wrote:
>
> > And probably wrap cards.dll too.
>
> FWIW, I wrapped cards.dll years ago (looks like I started in 1999 and last
> touched it in 2002) but didn't bother submitting it because it was so trivial
> and figured that anyone else that was interested could and would do a better
> job for their own purposes anyway. Besides that, I never release my stuff
> like I should.
>
> I even had animation working on Win9x but since animation got scrapped with
> XP, I also scrapped it (the functions are still there but they do nothing
> because the card-backs are different). The problem with cards.dll for
> Windows is that it basically only draws cards and card-backs. That's it,
> nothing else. I added some dealer.e stuff but wasn't satisfied before I
> got bored with it.
>
> I'll look at it again, clean it up some and submit it unless someone else
> beats me to it. Like I said, wrapping cards.dll is trivial. Enhancing
> it to be useful is where the work is.
>
> I also did some work with an *old* lib called qcard32.dll (google it). It
> has more functionality (than the windows version) that I tried to emulate
> before I got bored.
>
> -- Brian
> (now starting to transform this stuff to current win32lib standards)
I've already got it wrapped for the next win32lib release. Plus
some card-handling functions... shuffle, draw, split, sort, select,
discard, new deck, merge hands, ... etc..
--
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
3. Re: wrapper for cards.dll
Derek Parnell wrote:
>
> Brian Broker wrote:
> >
> > CoJaBo wrote:
> >
> > > And probably wrap cards.dll too.
> >
> > FWIW, I wrapped cards.dll years ago (looks like I started in 1999 and last
> > touched it in 2002) but didn't bother submitting it because it was so
> > trivial
> > and figured that anyone else that was interested could and would do a better
> > job for their own purposes anyway. Besides that, I never release my stuff
> > like I should.
> >
> > I even had animation working on Win9x but since animation got scrapped with
> > XP, I also scrapped it (the functions are still there but they do nothing
> > because the card-backs are different). The problem with cards.dll for
> > Windows is that it basically only draws cards and card-backs. That's it,
> > nothing else. I added some dealer.e stuff but wasn't satisfied before I
> > got bored with it.
> >
> > I'll look at it again, clean it up some and submit it unless someone else
> > beats me to it. Like I said, wrapping cards.dll is trivial. Enhancing
> > it to be useful is where the work is.
> >
> > I also did some work with an *old* lib called qcard32.dll (google it). It
> > has more functionality (than the windows version) that I tried to emulate
> > before I got bored.
> >
> > -- Brian
> > (now starting to transform this stuff to current win32lib standards)
>
>
> I've already got it wrapped for the next win32lib release. Plus
> some card-handling functions... shuffle, draw, split, sort, select,
> discard, new deck, merge hands, ... etc..
>
> --
> Derek Parnell
> Melbourne, Australia
>
Oops... read this after submitting an old zip that seemed to work with the
current Win32Lib. Might be worth a look anyway...
-- Brian
