I must admit that in some ways, it would be good to have a section on this forum, if only because it means that people don't have to sign up to a new forum to discuss a subject which really is already covered by two existing forums.
Noel is quite correct that the wrapper changes almost nothing about the underlying API. The only major difference I can think of is that I added a CTVWindow class which wraps up all the window creation and maintenance crap ( windows messaging, etc ) which you normally have to do in C++, C# or whatever. And that's just three or four calls in an entire program, because it's packaged away so that you don't see much of it.
So yeah, 95% of the time, you can absolutely post on the TV3D forums and people there will know what you're talking about. The syntactic differences between VB, C# and BlitzMax are pretty minimal when 99% of the code you're using is just TV API calls anyway.
I've taken the day off work to try and sort out the tutorials and a forum anyway, so there will be somewhere else to post soon. The GG forum is horribly broken and I can't find any way to fix it, so I'm either going to have to delete and reinstall that, or I'm going to have to find somewhere which hosts forums. Perhaps a Google Group or something, because then I can carry across any important threads. I'm doing the tutorials first, I'll post back when I've sorted out a forum.
Noel is quite correct that the wrapper changes almost nothing about the underlying API. The only major difference I can think of is that I added a CTVWindow class which wraps up all the window creation and maintenance crap ( windows messaging, etc ) which you normally have to do in C++, C# or whatever. And that's just three or four calls in an entire program, because it's packaged away so that you don't see much of it.
So yeah, 95% of the time, you can absolutely post on the TV3D forums and people there will know what you're talking about. The syntactic differences between VB, C# and BlitzMax are pretty minimal when 99% of the code you're using is just TV API calls anyway.
I've taken the day off work to try and sort out the tutorials and a forum anyway, so there will be somewhere else to post soon. The GG forum is horribly broken and I can't find any way to fix it, so I'm either going to have to delete and reinstall that, or I'm going to have to find somewhere which hosts forums. Perhaps a Google Group or something, because then I can carry across any important threads. I'm doing the tutorials first, I'll post back when I've sorted out a forum.