OpenEuphoria

Re: wrapper for cards.dll

• Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at cnw.com> Oct 06, 2004
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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