CDX Library

Added CVS snapshots to the Latest Release page. There is one large file with everything in it, and then several other smaller ones that have specific sections included only to make the downloads smaller if you don’t want all the other stuff.

Modified the Previous Release page and added the prior 2.4 release to the list of downloads. Those still interested in the older release can now download the source and libraries.

Fixed those annoying 192000 date problems that appeared on most of the web pages. It should now show the correct date it was last modified.

Finally got around to updating the current release page so you can download CDX from there now. A few new people are being added to the news service to keep it a little more fresh more often. As well, a couple of people have taken up the cause of helping out with the HTML on the site. If you’re interested please email me for more info. Thanks!

Long time since a post. CDX 3.0 is now available. Grab it here locally or from SourceForge here. I’ll be updating the rest of the site shortly.

Jean Pasdeloup emailed me about a new CDX game where you are a white blood cell and you have to destroy the quicker viruii in your system. Very interesting! Check it out here. If you want to download it, get this version instead of the one on the site. Alas, the source code is not available but that’s developers choice. I like seeing all the new games being produced with CDX, but I would prefer to see ones with source code released so others can learn from it. So there!

Johannes Wallroth just released his first game using CDX: PacWorld. He says “I probably wouldn’t have been able to do it without it.” You can find an info page about it (and download it) here.

I’ve been getting a few emails lately about people wondering how they can use CDX for non-C++ platforms. You can do this two ways:

CDXDLL
You can download a DLL version of the library. With proper interface headers you could use this with any compiler that supports DLL files. Someone (can’t
remember their name, sorry) is working on Delphi headers for this.

Active-CDX
Petrus Abri Santoso has an ActiveX control for CDX that can be used with Visual Basic, Delphi 4 and higher and any other platform that can use
ActiveX controls. His site is here.

Just a quick update. Michael Rich sent me version 2.4.0 of the library compiled for the Alpha machine last week. They’re up on the main site now. Sorry about the delay. Next week chapters from the book will be posted on the website along with some new samples.

Updated the daily snapshot file from CVS. This is the bleeding edge version of new changes directly from the CVS repository. It’s updated every morning at 6:00MST. You will have to rebuild the library files if you download this as they will be out of date from the sources. We’ll be removing the library files from CVS shortly since they’re never in sync with the source. Also updated the license page to reflect the new license we’re following (the Artistic License). It’s basically the same license as before, but official now. We had to adopt a standard license when we moved some of the services to SourceForge. The GNU General Public License we no good since you had to distribute all the source with your application. The LGPL license was basically the same so we chose the Artistic License. It does not require you to distribute the source code to CDX or your app/game with your app/game, but provide information on where to get it. Let me know if you have any questions about licensing. Free software or not, we have to follow a few rules.