API Forums
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Maybe I've already overlooked them in my haste, but I haven't seen any forums devoted to DirectX, OpenGL, or other API's of the like. What happens when someone has a question about a DirectX project they're working on but they're doing it in VB. Yes they can take it to the VB forum, but there's also a lot of people who know DirectX in the C++ part as well. The opposite would be true as well. A few ideas on how to work this: -One forum devoted to API's as a whole -Separate forums for the most popular API's -Subforums for the API's under the respective languages ( C#->API ) -Subforums for the different API's under the language forums ( VB->DirectX, C++->OpenGL, etc ) Any thoughts? Always Fear the Man with Nothing to Lose Jeryth
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Maybe I've already overlooked them in my haste, but I haven't seen any forums devoted to DirectX, OpenGL, or other API's of the like. What happens when someone has a question about a DirectX project they're working on but they're doing it in VB. Yes they can take it to the VB forum, but there's also a lot of people who know DirectX in the C++ part as well. The opposite would be true as well. A few ideas on how to work this: -One forum devoted to API's as a whole -Separate forums for the most popular API's -Subforums for the API's under the respective languages ( C#->API ) -Subforums for the different API's under the language forums ( VB->DirectX, C++->OpenGL, etc ) Any thoughts? Always Fear the Man with Nothing to Lose Jeryth
IMHO, the current approach - focusing more on the task than on a potential tool - is better in most cases. However, it would be nice in certain situations to have a very granular API forum - being able to group questions & answers by a specific API (all random data for
SetWindowPos()) could come in handy were it used correctly. Still, the CP search function does quite well for this last use, and given the potential for abuse (users cross-posting when they can't decide on a correct forum) seems like it may be an acceptable compromize for the time being.Shog9 --
Exchanging a walk-on part in the War
for the lead role in a Cage
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IMHO, the current approach - focusing more on the task than on a potential tool - is better in most cases. However, it would be nice in certain situations to have a very granular API forum - being able to group questions & answers by a specific API (all random data for
SetWindowPos()) could come in handy were it used correctly. Still, the CP search function does quite well for this last use, and given the potential for abuse (users cross-posting when they can't decide on a correct forum) seems like it may be an acceptable compromize for the time being.Shog9 --
Exchanging a walk-on part in the War
for the lead role in a Cage
Maybe I understood your post a little differently than you intended, but this might serve to clarify it for others. I didn't mean to employ all four ways I listed, but to select one that might work and use that and forget the others. Always Fear the Man with Nothing to Lose Jeryth