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Coding a Euchre Game, Part 3: Timers (Matt Gertz)

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]March 14, 2007Mar 14, 200703/14/07

Coding a Euchre Game, Part 3: TimersIn my previous posts regarding the Euchre game creation, I discussed some issues with creating a complex form and maintaining images to be shown on it.  In this posting, I’m going to start covering some of the more esoteric controls.Timers and Message PumpsTry this:  go to your Programs menu ...

Coding a Euchre Game, Part 2: Show me the cards! (Matt Gertz)

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]March 13, 2007Mar 13, 200703/13/07

Coding a Euchre Game, Part 2: Show me the cards! In my previous post, I discussed using control-drag to speed up the design of a form which uses lots of similar controls.  In this post, I’m going to discuss displaying images on those controls. Now, the face of each card is going to need an image, and you’ll also need one image for the...

Fun with card tricks (Matt Gertz)

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]March 12, 2007Mar 12, 200703/12/07

Back when I first started writing code, I got interested in game writing, and was fairly sure I could write out text-based games as well as the other offerings one could find on mainframes and, later, on the Commodores/TRS/Apples of the day.   The flow of those games were really very easy – you’d present a block of text to the ...