Articles written by: M. Saqib - MYCPLUS - C and C++ Programming Resources

Author: M. Saqib

DirectX Programming: A Sample for Microsoft DirectDraw

This is a very simple DirectDraw sample using Microsoft DirectX under Visual C++.

Palettes, Gaming Concepts & Double Buffering in DirectX

Screen modes come in several flavours, based on how many bits are used to store the color of each pixel on the screen. Naturally, the more bits you use per pixel, the more colours you can display at once; but there is more data to move into graphics memory to update the screen.

Direct X and its Components

One of the main purposes of DirectX is to provide a standard way of accessing many different proprietary hardware devices. DirectX is comprised of application programming interfaces (APIs) that are grouped into two classes: The DirectX Foundation layer and The DirectX Media layer. These APIs enable programs to directly access many of your computer”s hardware devices.

Website Upgraded to new CMS

For the past few days you might have faced problems in accessing the website. It’s due to...

GPS vehicle tracking systems

Few days before I was browsing through an interesting website about vehicle tracking systems...

Turbo C Compiler: History, Features, and Build Your Own UI in C

This is a small C program that demonstrates Turbo C Compiler User Interface. This is done by using graphics library in C.

Profit/Loss Calculator

This is a small utility written in C Programming Language to calculate the net income by checking a person’s salary and monthly expenses. On the basis of this information it calculates the loss or profit. It has a nice graphical User Interface with different formats to show the information i.e. Pie Chart: Shows the information in Pie chart with different colors for salary, expenses and net income. Tabular: Show all the information in tabular form. Bar Graph: Shows the information in Bar Graph with different colors for salary, expenses and net income.

Text editor

This program is written in pure C programming language. The interface of the C program is just like Turbo C/C++ compiler like interface, and it also provides some dialog boxes same like the Turbo C/C++ compiler. It has menus just like C/C++ compiler, text formatting options and also provides options to change font color.