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  1. Feb 14th, 2003, 01:27 PM #1
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    Exclamation visualizations

    I was wondering how to make visualizations like in Winamp or Windows Media Player. Do you have to know DirectX in order to program one of those?

    If anyone knows how to program a visualization, can you tell me how to do it in VB? Thanks.
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  2. Feb 14th, 2003, 01:38 PM #2
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    You wont be able to do it as good in vb as vb isnt compiled its a tokenised language which means that the OS has to interpret each line of code as it executes it thus slowing it down. Most plugins are written in Java, C/C++/ or Delphi which arent tokenised they are compiled. VB just hasnt got the speed for graphics like that (altho its still possible to write a plugin in vb)
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  3. Feb 14th, 2003, 01:46 PM #3
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    I dont know how to program any Win32 C++ yet..i dont even know how to create a window in C++, let alone program DirectX. Well..i want to learn how to program DirectX, and i think that if i start out programming it in VB, i would understand how to program it in C++ when i start to learn to program it.

    Can i still program a visualization in VB to try it out and see what happens even if it is slow?
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  4. Feb 14th, 2003, 02:03 PM #4
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    Your best bet mate is go to the Winamp site and click on the 'Community' tab top right of the screen. This is a forum much like this one (but slower respose times). It is filled with forums, just choose one relevant to what you are after, theres lots of developer forums and someone there will be able to point u in the right direction
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  6. Feb 14th, 2003, 05:06 PM #5
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    I think Blobby is mistaken. Java is interpreted in many cases, but VB6 is not truly interpreted. Whether or not it is actually too slow for your needs is unclear. Virtually all graphically intensive programs are still being written in C/C++ for speed, but I see that VB6 is catching up to some extent.
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