Engines

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August 7th, 2003, 09:50 PM
kasracer

Engines

How exactly does someone create an engine in C++?

I'm not talking about only 1 thing like a game engine, I'm talking about how to make 1 in general. Like say I have a user input a string and I want an engine that processes and evaltuates an equation the user enters.

Just engines in general.
August 8th, 2003, 12:05 AM
hometown

Re: Engines

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Originally posted by kasracer
How exactly does someone create an engine in C++?

I'm not talking about only 1 thing like a game engine, I'm talking about how to make 1 in general. Like say I have a user input a string and I want an engine that processes and evaltuates an equation the user enters.

Just engines in general.

This will help tell you how to make it....

Hope that helps:)

Regards,
-Nina
August 8th, 2003, 12:27 AM
kasracer

Re: Re: Engines

Quote:

Originally posted by hometown
This will help tell you how to make it....

Hope that helps:)

Regards,
-Nina

I didn't mean graphics engine, but engines in general.

Like IE, firebird, ect have HTML rendering engines. I want to create a way to work with data and output it without like 500 if else statements.
August 8th, 2003, 11:42 AM
Bob Davis

There is no such thing as a general "engine" for what you're talking about. Parsing a mathematical expression and rendering HTML are two completely different tasks with very different implementations. There is no golden engine that you can code to solve any problem that you want out there.
August 8th, 2003, 12:11 PM
kasracer

Quote:

Originally posted by Bob Davis
There is no such thing as a general "engine" for what you're talking about. Parsing a mathematical expression and rendering HTML are two completely different tasks with very different implementations. There is no golden engine that you can code to solve any problem that you want out there.

Yes I know this, I was using them as examples because I want to know if there are any online resource to developing my own engine to do things.
August 8th, 2003, 01:08 PM
Bassman

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developing my own engine to do things

Before you start researching implementation techniques, you need to know exactly what it is going to do, and exactly how you want people to use it. Otherwise, you're just yelling in the wind.

Is it a program that will run on a computer and have other computers send requests? Is it a separate process that takes requests from applications? Is it a library? A DLL? A class? All of these could be interpreted as 'engines' but are implemented and used in different ways.

Regards,
Bassman