Creating windows in a DLL

[Tim]

I was using the Irrlicht 3D graphics engine on Windows and noticed
that you only need a console application to control everything.

E.g. to create a window, all you need to do is include and link to the
irrlicht library and call one function from a console app - how is
this possible? How do you create a DLL that can open a window which is
controllable from a simple console app?

e.g.

#include <irrlicht.h>
using namespace irr;
using namespace core;
using namespace scene;

#pragma comment(lib, "Irrlicht.l ib")
int main()
{
IrrlichtDevice *device = createDevice(ED T_SOFTWARE,
dimension2d<s32 >(512, 384), 16,false, false, false, 0);

while(1)
{
}

}

See http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/tut001.html

[Ulrich Achleitner]

Re: Creating windows in a DLL

On 17 Jan 2005 05:07:44 -0800, Tim <tsmith@micromi ll.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
> I was using the Irrlicht 3D graphics engine on Windows and noticed
> that you only need a console application to control everything.
>
> E.g. to create a window, all you need to do is include and link to the
> irrlicht library and call one function from a console app - how is
> this possible? How do you create a DLL that can open a window which is
> controllable from a simple console app?[/color]


reading about "worker threads" and "gui threads" may help you to
understand.

besides, this is imho not the right place for this question since it is
highly ms-windows specfic, and by no means a c++ problem.

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have a nice day
ulrich