Re: game design

From: "Johan van Niekerk" <johanvn@mail.petech.ac.za>

Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0000

I assume you're doing this under windows ?
If so Visual Basic can easily do it. I fact I can email you the source to do
it if you want. I would however recommend skipping the whole copying into
folders business and simply reading orders straight into a database,
thereafter you have full SQL capabilities available.
 If you're NOT doing this under windows I would recommend ignoring outlook
completely and simply using your code to access the mailboc directly.
Outlook uses POP3 so you can easily have a program log into the mailbox, and
download the messages.
If you want to use visual C simply use the MAPI controls, (same as in VB)
search for MAPI in the helpfiles, its really very easy, the difficult part
is parsing the bloody stuff, and error checking etc.
BTW
There is an execellent (though somewhat dead lately) discussion forum for
game-design / programming etc
http://www.dejanews.com/~pbm_design
try it.

Cheers
  Johan

<grenadeboy@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:8ms1aj$tj8$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> For a couple of years I've given some thought to coding a free open-
> ended fantasy wargame. I am at the point now where the basic design is
> done, yet I am still far from beginning work on the various
> algorithms/pseudocode. It's going to be a while before I actually start
> coding- I am a CS major, and I want to wait until I finish the C
> algorithm/data structure class.
>
> For now, I am happy trying to figure out how my game will work on a
> conceptual basis. The question that has me puzzled right now is this:
> how can I download messages from Outlook and place them into a specific
> folder? Can anyone recommend a utility that does this? Also, when I
> process orders, should I read through each individual email, or should
> I go through each email and combine those emails into a 'master order
> list'. Example of master order list:
>
> BEGIN
> Player #3434
> ...
> ...
> ...
> END
> BEGIN
> Player# 3435
> ...
>
> The advantage of the master list is that I can easily scan through the
> list and pick out orders based upon priority (for example, battles
> orders come before move orders), and once I am through the list, I can
> scan it again and again. Conceptually, it seems easier to process
> orders in this manner rather than scanning many different files.
>
> Your throughts would be appreciated.
>
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.

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Wed, 09 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0000

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Wed, 09 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0000