DirectX Complete

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0079137806 ISBN 13: 9780079137807

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 1999

Reader-friendly yet in-depth, this exploration of Microsoft's DirectX API shows you step-by-step how to build a fully-featured game or multimedia application for all Windows or NT platforms. You get full coverage of this linchpin technology that offers direct access to hardware capabilities, such as sound and video, without the need for dealing with differences among chip sets and device drivers.

Inside DirectX Complete, you'll find everything you need to add glitch-free graphics, animation, sound, and network links to applications for Windows or NT; master DirectX development through step-by-step examples; and apply DirectX DirectDraw, DirectSound, DirectPlay, DirectInput, DirectMusic, and put them together for a complete application package. Plus, the CD-ROM gives you numerous class libraries, a custom DirectX App Wizard, and all the functions of the interactive 3-D game developed by example throughout the book.

From the Back Cover:

With the McGraw-Hill Companies Series, you get 100% of what you need to deliver fully functional applications fast. You get complete coverage of technical issues from experts who understand the problems you must solve. DirectX is the linchpin technology that makes computer games and multimedia applications run seamlessly on Windows and NT platforms. Allowing direct access to hardware capabilities, such as sound video, it empowers programmers to spend time building jazzier applications--not fretting over differences among chip sets and device drivers.

This guide delivers all the know-how you need to put the Direct X API to work. With DirectX Complete on your side, you'll be able to: add glitch-free graphics, animation, sound, and network links to applications for Windows or NT on any hardware; Master DirectX development through step-by-step examples; apply the building blocks of DirectX--DirectDraw, DirectSound, DirectPlay, DirectInput, DirectMusic--and link them; develop your own DirectX libraries.

About the Author:

Michael D. Root is head of software development for Sunstorm Interactive, a developer of Windows games.