Hmm. we need a programing forum, but this is the closest...

12-02-2002, 09:39 PM	#1
Axiverse	To all you programmers: (visual basic - I have .net) How do you read .slk files and inplement them into your program To anyone who has vb.net Why won't it let me add directX stuff? I've added directx7 com lib as a referance but the directx oby doesnt apperar!! Public dim ddobj as DirectX7 'it says this doesn't exist

12-03-2002, 06:56 PM	#2
Electromancer	Im not a programer, but maybe it would help to have the latest directx, which is directx 8. Maybe that could help.

12-03-2002, 09:08 PM	#3
Starcraftfreak	Actually it's DirectX 8.1. This version comes also with Warcraft III (you need it to play Warcraft III)

12-03-2002, 09:58 PM	#4
AquaDaishi	You need more then just the DirectX drivers, you need the sdk, check Microsoft.com... -Fredric

12-03-2002, 10:19 PM	#5
nicoli_s	actually i beleive they have a directX 9 or at least one higher than war3's directX i know, but im not sure if its completely stable yet

12-04-2002, 12:22 AM	#6
Axiverse	well i have 8.1 and 9 is in beta, but i've tried 8. also i would like info on loading slk files, cause i'm making a spell editor mainly for practice cause i suck at dealing with files... so right now it looks really cool but does nothing much... emote_confused :( and how much is 1048576 bytes... 1mb? 10mb? 100mb? or what?

12-04-2002, 12:40 AM	#7
ChronOmega	thats about a mb cause 1mb=about 1,000,000 bytes

12-04-2002, 10:33 AM	#8
Krakou	1048576 bytes is exactly 1 Mb.

12-04-2002, 12:56 PM	#9
AquaDaishi	I'll upload my source code for slk loading tonight. -Fredric

12-04-2002, 08:24 PM	#10
Axiverse	i'll be waiting: here's what i'm trying to do... abilitydata editor, duh text file editor - what specifies whar race each spell goes into? adding new spells - easy onto end, but harder into middle... don't want to rewrite the file every time a new spell is made... directle insert into map - if i can ever get a mpq dll - arg i hate .net and anything else fun.... This might be tedious....

12-06-2002, 12:25 PM

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Phil_123

1 bit = on/off switches (off = 0, on = 1)
8 bits = 1 byte
1024 bytes = 1 KB
1024KB = 1MB
1024MB = 1GB
1024GB = 1TB
1024TB = 1PB

most hard disk manufacturers use 1000 instead of 1024 (that means a "120GB" hard disk may actaully has only 114.440918GB of stroage space)
1 english character = 1 byte (ANSI) / 2 bytes (Unicode)
1 chinese/japanese/korean character = 2 bytes (any text standard)
a floppy disk = 1.44 MB
a CD-Rx disk = 650-900MB
a DVD disk = 4.7GB (single layer) / 9.4GB (double layer)