Re: Designing a renderer

> > function IRenderer::Init(...). The arguments vary with
> > the OS. On a Windows platform you have to pass the HWND
> > for the window, on a Linux system that could be totally
> > different.

Yes, so that's why you have to abstract window creation, too. So you'd have
a class for creating a window, and two implementations - one for windows,
and one for linux. Take a look at OGRE for a good engine design:

ogre.sourceforge.net

-Ivan




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