Windows sucks. No really.

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i like the colour scheme and the roundness of it all. the grey windows scheme's very dull, but i changed mine to a kinda grey blue-ish colour. anyone have any interesting backgrounds 4 me? like he SaiNt's one, even though i only saw an inch of it.
 
Back to VC++. I think it's a great tool. But it has some of the most hideous of problems. Aside from the fact that it has problems w/ templates, it seems to have problems w/ scopes as well. For example, try this:int main() {
  for (int i = 0; i < 3; printf("%i",++i));
  int i = 5;
  return 0;
}

For some odd reason, the variable i remains outside the scope of the for loop. What the heck is up with that?
 
It's just how VC (and some other compilers ... not just VC) deal with scope. They don't treat loops as different scopes. I suppose either way could be justified, but personally I don't like the VC way, because I'm used to other languages where loops are a new scope...
 
If u like the WindowsXP interface so much, download WindowBlinds from stardock and download the skin from wincustomise.com. DON'T SUPPORT WINDOWS XP!!!!
 
whats wndowblinds? is it another OS or just something little for Windows 98?
 
Windowblinds is a sort of skinning utility for "windows" in Windows  :)
 
thats sounds pretty cool. ill try it. but itll probably make loading windows slower and my pc's already slow enough, i'll try it out. cheers Joey and The SaiNt.
 
IIRC, you can specify a scope manually by using an extra set of { }.int a,b;
{
  int c;
  c = 4;
}
c = 5;  // Illegal
 
Yea that's one way to skip this problem, but why does variables declared in loops (e.g. for(...)) exist outside it's scope? It's really bugging me. A few other compilers that I've worked w/, GPP and Intel for example, they don't do that.
 
Yup. Not only I can make my windows 98 look like WinXP, but like mac, Amiga, Lisa, Win3.1, You name it(make the skin is available  :D)
 
VC++: Yes, you can avoid the problem with an extra set of braces, but that is not the main point...the main point is that it breaks compatability with lots of code out there.Most of the VC++ compiler problems is listed at [url="<a]http://www.boost.org/more/microsoft_vcpp.html[/url]" TARGET=_blank>http://www.boost.org/more/microsoft_vcpp.html

WindowBlinds: Tried it, it wastes resources and makes the machine crawl. Personally I don't bother about skins, the computer is a *tool* and I don't care much about skins as long as they let me do whatever I want to do (which does not include staring pointlessly on the window borders). But by all means go for it...
 
if u reallt hate windows, youll love to know that connectix also do virtual PC for mac, and soon comin to PC!
 
Yes, Virtual PC (a Windows emulator for Macintosh) is now being ported to Windows.  So... a Windows emulator for Windows is what we have here.  And what they'll make you pay probably $50+ for....?
 
Yea, all I ever use my computer for is watching movies (I know, I know) and building apps that do seem to work.  :)
 
Windows Xp looks nicer than all the others an everything is in a good place, It never crashes although the helpfile is totaly buggered.
 
yes the Virtual PC demo is out and i can say that in win2000 i am also running win98  :D
but thats as far as ive tested it, u will need quite a bit of memeory if its running in win2000/me/xp
 
does that mean it would be like running ME, so I would that solve a problem I'm having with starlancer on XP? (Odd tiling effect)
 
I dunno. But if it is the problem with the UI, WindowBlinds can fix it.
 
I think its just the driver, but there isnt a new one yet. Windows drivers always seem to be buggy for me
 
I found this to be hilarious:In 1994 Erwin Unruh presented to the C++ Standards Committee a template program that generated prime numbers. The program didn’t compile, but in its error messages it displayed the prime numbers. This created a new way of thinking about templates.
 
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