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Newcomers DBPro Corner / .dba to .cpp conversion?

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CodeOrc
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Posted: 2nd Nov 2003 07:25
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Hi Everybody,

Ok, to my understanding, DBPro 'builds' a DirectX program from within the DBPro programming interface once you press F5.

So my question is this. Is there a 'plug-in' for DBP that instead of building the .exe it will build your code into a .cpp or like that you can then load into a c++ editor and see what it looks like?

sorry if this one of the dumbest questions ever asked, but I just had to ask.

thanx!

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Phaelax
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Posted: 2nd Nov 2003 10:05
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I thought it built it into machine code.
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Oliver
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I don't know much about the subject, though I don't think you'll ever get it into c++. And i'm certain theres no plug-in to save it as a .cpp.



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Floyd
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Since it doesn't produce c++ code, you can't look at it in that way. MS-DOS used to come with a disassembler, which allowed you to look at object code (machine code). If you're really obsessed about what's being produced, you could probably still find a disassembler somewhere.
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Black Hydra
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I really don't think that is possible nonetheless existant
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IanM
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Posted: 8th Nov 2003 03:02
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DBPro produces machine code from your basic code, and calls internal libraries written in C++ and compiled to machine code. There is no intermediate code to look at, C++ or otherwise.

If you want to look at the machine code, then the best way is to use a debugger rather than a disassembler, as the debugger gets the code *after* windows has linked in the library code which IMO makes it easier to follow.
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Linker
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DBPro and C++ or even C are completely different languages. If you look at C code, the code for making a loop would be very, very complicated. Someone who has been living under a rock could understand this:

do
print "Hi!"
loop

Even if they didn't know what a computer is. So enough rambling for me to get to the point. All languages have different syntax!!!!!!! You'd need an interpreter for switching the languages. And sorry if I'm wrong, but I don't think there are any DBPro to C++ interpreters out there.
Sorry if that sounded mean.

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Mattman
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yes, but i believe that was a bad example. someone from a rock would not have too much trouble with this i bet too:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
cout << ("Hello world\nMy name is Matt!");
return 0;
}

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