I spent some time creating native code that I could use long-term in private research projects. I wanted to avoid being moved to and fro with tools that came into popularity only to disappear entirely. Allow me to paraphrase Scott Meyers who said at a conference on the D programming language, you want to maximize your time on solutions and not a perpetual treadmill of new versions of the same tools.
Enhancing your abilities with new tools is good when it relates well to a solution. That requires judgment such as what an investor would apply. That is called programming like an investor. When you build a solution, because you are solving problems and creating opportunities, your goal is to maximize that solution. That is what the program below represents.
It does not look like much, but it turns out that creating something like this requires a fair amount of thought. I have published 3 separate series on this concept. This is the 4th series. The difference between this series and the others is this is production quality work that you can begin to base a solution upon. This article introduces the goal. Long-term code with a focus on solutions.
A few of the articles that follow focuses on just one code file. The solution has several files but I chose 7 of the prominent ones. Each article is available from the navigation areas along this page. You can see the full source code @ michaelgautier/capture-and-draw.
- Part 01 – C++ | Top Level
- Part 02 – C++ | End-user Level
- Part 03 – C++ | Data Structures
- Part 04 – C++ | Generic Interactive Interface
- Part 05 – C++ | Generic Link to Specific Interfaces
- Part 06 – C++ | Specific Interactive Interface
- Part 07 – C++ | Specific Interactive Implementation / SFML
- Part 08 – C++ | Bash Shell Build Scripts
- Part 09 – C++ | Conclusion / Full Source Code
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