Change notes for 1.9

• Multiple API calls changed some types from
  char*
  to
  const char*
  , also blending mode is now using
  hgeBlendMode
  enum - use type cast like so:
  spt->SetBlendMode((hgeBlendMode)(BLEND_COLORMUL | BLEND_ALPHAADD | BLEND_NOZWRITE));
• uint32_t
  color argument in many functions and classes is now a simple wrapper class
  hgeColor32
  . To give default clear/draw color, you can use
  hgeColor32::WHITE()
  and
  BLACK()
  constexpr functions or create your colors.
• Multiple improvements to memory safety (strings and vectors where
  char *
  has a risk of overflow), modernising the source (smart pointers, etc), and type safety (replacing generic pointers and ints with structs and enums).

Support & Questions

Documentation and more info http://kvakvs.github.io/hge

Example game can be found here https://github.com/kvakvs/hge_skel

For those times when you absolutely need help, there is the Discord channel: https://discord.gg/TdjamHt

ANNOUNCEMENT

DirectX8 support has ended. There will be no assistance with DirectX8 issues, DirectX8 code will be gradually removed. Please use DirectX9.

INSTALLING

This package is configured with CMakeLists.txt for use with CMake. Once ran, CMake generates project files for one of known IDE's for Windows (as well as Linux/Unix/MacOSX but this version of HGE only builds on Windows).

1. Edit CMakeLists.txt in root folder, set "DIRECTX_SDK_DIR" to where you have DirectX 9 SDK (see that it comes from microsoft.com, tagged year ~2010, size ~550 MB).
2. Run
   cmake_studioNNNN.bat
   (NOTE: you can create own bat file if CMake supports your IDE).
3. Project directory will be created in
   _build
   , open project file (.SLN solution file) with your IDE and click "BUILD" in your IDE.
4. Resulting library
   HGE.DLL
   and HGE.LIB will be placed in
   bin
   directory, all intermediate libraries will be placed in
   /linklib
   . There is also HGE-STATIC library which doesn't require DLL to run, it can be found in
   linklib
   .
5. All temporary build files will stay inside
   _build/
   . To clean intermediate files one should delete
   linklib
   ,
   bin
   and
   _build

IMPORTANT

1. If you got a 64bit project by mistake, add "-A Win32" to CMake command line. See example in
   cmake_studio2019.bat
2. If you are going to change any build options, please keep in mind, that this is CMake generated project, editing anything inside
   _build
   folder will be overwritten next time, when you compile HGE project. If you need to add any compiler options, please edit main or each
   CMakeLists.txt
   in HGE181 and
   src/*
   folders (depending how big your changes are).
3. if you link against HGE library, you only need to mention HGE.LIB in project settings, and have
   HGE.DLL
   in your program folder. HGEHELPERS is not needed (its linked internally).
4. if you link against HGE-STATIC flavour of library, you don't need
   HGE.DLL
   anymore, all functionality will be included in your application. You need to mention HGEHELPERS, ZLIB and HGELIBPNG in linker settings of your project for this to work (as well as D3D8.lib D3DX8.lib or 9 if you are using DirectX9 and WINMM.lib). Consult project settings of 'hge' project regarding Linker input.