This is somewhat off-topic, but seeing as though many of us learn OpenGL to fulfill our desire to program 3D games, I hope no one will mind.

I have ported to object pascal the source code accompanying this article:

"Managing Game States in C++" by Tony Lewis
http://tonyandpaige.com/tutorials/game1.html

You can download my port from here:

http://www.urbanaustralia.org/cragwolf/ ... pas.tar.gz

(23 KB)

I have only tested it with FPC v1.9.8 and JEDI_SDL v1.0 (Beta 1) on Linux. But I see no reason why it shouldn't work on Windows with FPC or Delphi (perhaps with a few small changes). I compile it with: fpc -Sd -ostateman main.dpr

If you have any questions about it, just email me.

To work with Delphi, you have to change two small things.

First, add {APPTYPE CONSOLE} to main.dpr, or you get an in/out error, cause WriteLn without file parameter is only allowed in console applications.

Second, in file gameengine.pas, line 230:
to

Grettings
KidPaddle

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Thanks.