TorstenH wrote: try sharepod - works fine, faster than ITunes and just the tool one wants - without video, shop and lots of graphical overhead. I have heard of sharepod when i googled for a way to transfer files from the iPod back to my computer. But i do not see any features for fetching metadata from the internet, only tag editing. Maximilien wrote: me think you will have to look for resources to look into the ipod filesystem (must be documentented somewhere); mount the ipod as a disk and look at it. Yeah, i think jailbreaking the iPod allows drive letter access to it (for iPod Touch, that is). Once i do that then i could just operate on the files directly in the file system. Of course, i would still need a 3rd party tool to fetch the metadata. For fetching the information, normally it starts with the CD and the CD id to get data from CDDB (now Gracenote, not free, i think, but you could use itunes for that) and match the tracks and get the metadata. Brute force searching on the web will have to be done for more detail info like composer and album art. anyway, one simpler way would be to transfer the data back to your computer and do the work there and sync back to your ipod. I get most of my music from the internet, not CD. Obviously it would be easy to get metadata from a CD since the data already exists on the CD and it is just a matter of extracting it (i think iTunes can do that). And yes, "brute force" searching is what i want. Of course, the search engine would be most of that "force", but i want to be able to confirm that the search result is correct before i use that data. Windows Media Player does this. You select an album (or a group of songs) and it shows you the search results. You still have to manually confirm, but it's a whole lot faster that googling each song yourself. [Window Detective] - Windows UI spy utility

fyi, i found the problem. I stupidly forgot to return a value from a function. I only just picked it up then when the compiler told me that "not all control paths return a value". I guess i missed that warning previously. [Window Detective] - Windows UI spy utility

Get in the habit of doing this: if (BG_WARP == bgType) That won't compile with the single = Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

El Corazon wrote: are you blending these via vertex coloring or via alpha textures? I am blending via vertex colouring. And you're right, i don't really care about all of the High Dynamic events. I do a Computer Science degree at uni but graphics is not one of my courses. I am just doing this as a hobby because i like graphics. So i really shouldn't waste my time learning about OpenGL lighting effects (i might read up on it on the holidays). I guess i will just use GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE for now, as long as i don't blend many colours at once and end up with a white screen! :) thanks for your help anyway -------------------------------- Customer in computer shop: "Can you copy the Internet onto this disk for me?"

Well, i have taken the leap to using pbuffers. I really have no idea about OpenGL let alone pbuffers so i am just picking things up as i go along. I got some code of the internet which uses pbuffers but i can't get it to work. There were 3 ways of doing it, i did the second one since my hardware doesn't support the 3rd way (see here[^], "Off-screen Rendering Using Pixel Buffers" Version #2). I was wondering if i need a certain version(?) of wglext.h since they included one in the download and i didn't have one before so i just copied that. I keep getting errors when trying to switch contexts between rendering to the pbuffer and rendering to the screen, i,e wglMakeCurrent() fails. Any ideas, just of the top of your head since i can't post my whole code. Could it be the way i'm doing it or is it my hardware? (The example exe from the site worked but i didn't compile) Customer in computer shop: "Can you copy the Internet onto this disk for me?"

Rilhas wrote: I once made an application to wrap the real-time video feed from a web cam onto a 3D virtual object in the OpenGL world. Do you want to do something like that? Pretty much. WMP stands for Windows Media Player and i am making a visualization for it. That is the image that is shown when you play a song. It is a moving image that is rendered in real-time and usually moves to the beat of the song. I want to warp the image i have drawn using a 2D array of warp points. I am currenty making an app that edits those points. When it draws the image, it renders it to a texture then draws quads using the points and maps the a section of the texture to it's respective quad. I then copy the screen (with the warped image) back to that texture and do the whole thing again each frame. The result is that the image has a blur/trace effect where the warped image constantly fades into the background. Here are some pics http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/1388/viz1kx4.th.png http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4991/screenshot4kj7.th.jpg Check out the SwapBuffers post to see my latest problem and see if you can help me their. Customer in computer shop: "Can you copy the Internet onto this disk for me?"

Yes, i fiddled around with the code and merged Graphics.cpp with Main.cpp and made a Main.h where i did the same thing. It eventually worked, probably because, like you said, i only included things in the files that needed it. btw, the library is "radc++.h" not "regc++.h" and i just remembered that i downloaded and installed it in Dev-C++. But all you need to know it that it is purely based on Microsoft Window API, no external libraries. Customer in computer shop: "Can you copy the Internet onto this disk for me?"

yes, i fixed the problem. I just converted to string. I forgot that C-strings are just pointers, so you are actually comparing the memory locations. However, i could have sworn i had seen it written before (unless it was to specifically compare memory locations) Customer in computer shop: "Can you copy the Internet onto this disk for me?"

That's a good idea. I used Dev-Cpp's debugger yesterday, but i don't like it all that much. I prefer just inserting cout's to debug. And what i am trying to do with the code it count object lines of code & the LOC of each function in that object. So i need to be able to read function names, which is why i am not just simply removing all whitespace. Also, i realized the other day that i am compiling/running it on Unix as well as Windows so newlines are a problem. I thought getline() just got a line regardless of the format but it actually only uses \n as a delimiter so i might be getting some errors if there are some \r in there too

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