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I meant to mention earlier that I was only able to miss noticing Struct’s because of classes. In most cases a class is a better option but Windows was mostly written in C and a lot of its functions expect a Struct as their input argument.

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Ouch !

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Oh I did find that the Windows API has cursor control and positioning functions for console windows, just need to include windows.h to call them from a C/C++ console program. The functions take a window handle for your console window and then arguments for whatever they do like an X and Y position.

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In my quest to find a decent C++ programming book I have just ordered “The C++ Primer” from Addison-Wesley. I overlooked this book before because it has “Primer” in the title and I thought it would be to simplistic but I have now read the first chapter on the Amazon preview and it seems really good. The reviews from those that  have managed to read it are all 5 star too, apparently the Kindle version doesn’t work.

Should arrive on Tuesday so we shall see.

Now if I can just find a decent reference guide to Visual Studio and one to the Windows API (formally win32 API) I will be happy 😁

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I mean “sure you did”

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The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation is now in force and Websites are now being updated to comply.

The regulation requires that a Website scans your device for all cookies relating to its self when you log in and then warn you if it finds any new ones. The site stores a cookie with the results of the last scan so if you delete cookies when you close a page then any site that uses cookies will belive it has never scanned before and give you that message.

I don’t know if that helps because you say you changed the setting but are you did 😁

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Mr Corbyn didn’t have some sort of Marxist experiment in mind, given a big enough majority, he had a full blown Marxist state in mind.

Mr Johnson has been a bit busy recently with a new baby and being in hospital with the virus but I’m hoping we have his attention now.

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Well a funny thing, the system still has its original 1TB HDD from 2010 as media storage but it has had 3 SSD system drive upgrades. Always speed, size and reliability reasons.

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Oh yeh. It rained a bit yesterday 🤣

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I live in harrow now and I grew up in Wembley. Furthist I have been recently is Watford. No pics cos nothing happens around here 😁

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Well it may extend the life of the system, you can always buy a new graphics card. Still running my i7 990X with a Radeon RX480 and I may replace that if something much better comes out 😁

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I was also thinking we may not need aircraft carriers. The day of the big battle ship may return.

Cruise missiles, anti missile missiles, anti torpedo torpedos and radar guided guns. Bigger the ship the more of them it could hold.

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Don’t those glasses make you feel sick ?

I only really need glasses for distance but I was doing some fine work and I thought some magnifying would be good. Nope, just made me giddy 😆

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Oh Dear ! Don’t you just hate it when things like that happen 😆

And the == in the title reminds me of another thing I hate, the reuse of symbols in programming languages to mean different things. The use of * in C++ to mean at least 3 different things is especially annoying.

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I have always had a tendency towards short sight and at 27 I finally had to admit I would need glasses for driving ( I could no longer read street signs until I was right on top of them).

Once I got a pair of glasses I liked being able to see everything again so much that I decided to just wear them all the time 😁.

I still only need single focus lenses but I had a bit of money last year so I decided to splash out on a new pair at boots.

Designer Stepper titanium frames and single focus lenses with everything. Special construction for thinness and light weight, antireflection/glare/scratch coatings and reactalight.

Anyway £470 WITH my NHS diabetic discount 😆

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I suppose gun powder would proved quite a good fuel for a sodium nitrate explosion and it does look like they had a firework factory explosion first.

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https://www.firerescue1.com/hazards-hazmat/videos/massive-train-car-explosion-bleve-Mld5gN4Nfb3zFXIT/

Apparently iso butane is good too.

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Wow, look at that shock wave !

The closest thing I’ve seen to that was a train tanker carrying liquid propane gas exploding in a fire.

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It has been a while since I last looked at std_lib_facilities.h as I have given up on ever getting it debugged.

As I recall though, the main reasons that it would not compile were a dodgy macro that they even call a “disgusting fudge” in the comments and the fact that they use a typedef to redefine the standard library vector as Vector which uses their own range checked version instead.  Not only does their version not work, it is not needed because vectors ARE range checked in C++14 and above, may even have been C++11.

Those are just the two things I remember most, there are a host of others and of course the linker chips in with a long list of errors too. In short its just rubbish 😁

If you fancy a challenge though, don’t let me stop you from trying to debug it, I will post you a link to download it if you like 😃

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DirectX is another subject in its own right and no one seems to do a good book about that either.

What’s really annoying though is the  huge lack of  information about setting up and using the Visual Studio IDE with C++ and the Win32 API/DirectX. The documentation used to be avaliable in printed form with updates provided in help files that came with newer versions of Visual Studio, then it was made download only and now it is scattered all over the developer forums and GitHub and only accessible by following a great long chain of links 😡

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