[SDL] .NET framework? What the hell?!

[Kein-Hong Man]

Hi,

[this is becoming a little OT, sorry, I hope it doesn't drag on 
for too long]

BTW Leo, your computer's date and time seems to be incorrectly set.

Next, carefully read these rather well-known articles:
(1) ESR, How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
(2) Simon Tatham, How to Report Bugs Effectively

Leo M. Cabrera wrote:
>> Heh, yeah, seriously.  Dunno how many times I've seen random
>> posts to this list:  "SDL doesn't do XYZ!"  or  "SDL is broken!", when
>> it's working fine for countless others :)
> I'm not saying SDL is broken, when I say "I don't know how to fix it" I 
> mean "I don't know how to make it do what I want do do". Get it? :-P

It would help your cause better if you ask humbly and honestly. If 
you have been lurking, you would have noticed that people on the 
list do offer suggestions or help. Please learn to post nicely and 
clearly, otherwise no one will help. Don't be shy and don't be too 
proud; remember, all of us have also started from zero once upon a 
time. We have done our share of blunders too.

>> It is better to provide details of what you actually did, e.g. 
>> command lines calls, a minimal example of the program source in 
>> question, error messages, libraries used, etc.
> Nah, that's okay, I'm not quite ready for C++ yet...  I'll keep doing it 
> in Lua and C# for now*. Thanks though. ;-)

You are posturing. In the original post, you said, "... plain old 
C SDL game...", yet here you are talking about C++, Lua and C#. 
There is no need to prove anything here; we are here to talk about 
SDL issues.

For most of us, computer languages are just tools to be used; we 
don't have religious preferences. By posting confusing statements 
and withholding information, people cannot help you, and they will 
rightly conclude that you are just wasting everyone's time -- 
which is hardly a good way to participate in a list like this.

>> "What the hell?" is really unnecessary; people might not want to 
>> help such a person who says things like that when the problem is 
>> with a serious lack of knowledge on the part of the speaker.
> Probably most of the people on this list are professional programmers 
> with many years of experience; I just have like... 4? 5?  And I started 
> making cheap viruses in DOS Batch, and I don't know when I started with 
> C++ or other "real" languages, so bear with me. ;-)

People on the list don't care about experience -- there is no 
"mine is bigger than yours" childishness on this list. As for what 
they do care about, please read the two articles above, then if 
you mend your ways, I'm sure people on the list will be more than 
willing to help.

> [snip]

HTH,
-- 
Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia