i don't think this is a good argument.

how hard can it be to look for pan_setslider if you see that setslider is a method of panel objects? and a search function will find pan_setslider anyway if you enter setslider.

having a clean and non-verbose/non-redundant API should always come first.

ideally the wrapper should come with its own complete documentation since the usage of some functions will be quite different to lite-c. but i know that doing such a documentation would be a lot of (quite boring) work.

does the wrapper works with A8 too?
i havn´t gamestudio installed, so i can´t test

(nice try!) You are certainly right, but like you say, it is a boring task so waiting for some motivation .

Best regards.

If you don't use physX then yes, it works ok (Stromausfall is correcting some little problems). But for physX support we will wait for Stromausfall to get A8(soon) .

Best regards.

he should ask jcl if he gets the upgrade for free or at least cheaper since this wrapper is really a big and important contribution to the community.

Yes, that would also be a good idea. I have also made a wrapper for A8, based on the A7 wrapper and with his precious help. It is working but like I said to him, I think that it is best to wait for his A8 Wrapper (It won't be long as he said) as he is good on maintaining his works ( Not like me ). If you want it, I can post it here next week while waiting for Stromausfall's A8 C# Wrapper.

Best regards.

@ventilator your're quite right about the documentation esepcially about how much boring work it would involve ^^
And as I don't plan to really create a real documentation I also don't plan to create a api which isn't that blatantly based on the lite-c api, because an own documentation would be needed for it - and that's too much work imho - like you said ^^



I was already able to update the wrapper :

The new version supports
-A8 and A7 (you can switch the wrapper to support A7 through adding 'A7_WRAPPER' to the 'Build>Conditional compilation symbols' property in Visual Studio)
-most of the on_ engine variables now use an 'EventHandler' in whose list you can add (and of course also remove) all functions which should be called when the event fires
-additionally some bugs in the Material engine object were fixed (thanks 3dgs_snake ^^)!

here's the link :

AcknexWrapper_8_0_3_2__2_1_0.zip (update : don't download this version, it has a serious bug when an entity is removed (endless loop) !)

this update fixes a critical bug with on_ent_remove and lets all engine objects inherit from a new EngineObject class which offers the Equals Method and operator overloading for == and !=, which allows for example that two entity objects which point to the same entity are 'equal'

here's the link :

AcknexWrapper_8_0_3_2__2_1_1.zip

thanks for the new version

but i have a small problem with it (with all versions i tried).
i want to embed the engine into a panel of a winform-window in .net2.0 (like a control). for this i use a code-snippet posted long ago by DJBMASTER: http://www.opserver.de/ubb7/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=280835#Post280835
this snippet works, but not very well: over the whole winform-window the hand-cursor is forced at every frame. the result of this is a ugly flicker of the cursor (because every frame the default-cursor will be replaced by the hand-cursor).
furthermore there is a problem with the dockpanel-suite (by weifenluo): i can´t dock anything while the engine is running.

does anyone know how to fix this problems or a work-around?
thanks

@Tempelbauer, this issue can be solved by running the engine in a new thread.