How to make a 3D slideshow effect?

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There are many nice effect of slideshow in the photo manger software. For example, ACDSee has a cube effect.
My question is how to make these effects, can it be done only in C++?
Thanks for your time.

Posted 25-Jan-11 20:27pm

yanxin

Updated 25-Jan-11 22:07pm

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Cedric Moonen · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-25T21:49:00

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What do you mean exactly by "only in C++" ? If you mean the C++ defined purely in the standard, then no. C++ itself doen't have any support for UI stuff (e.g., not for windows UI neither).
For instance if you want to make a simple windows UI (e.g. dialogs with some buttons), you will need to use a specific library or API (win32 API, MFC, Qt, ...) which is not defined in the standard.

For advanced graphical effects, you could use OpenGL, DirectX, possibly GDI+ (I don't have experience with is) and maybe other libraries. Your application is still written in C++, but it uses external libraries.

Does it answer your question ?

Posted 25-Jan-11 21:49pm

Cedric Moonen

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yanxin 26-Jan-11 4:36am

When I say only in C++,I hope it is platform-independent.So I can not use GDI+,but OpenGL is OK.But I dont have many experience about OpenGL. Can you give me some ideas or some examples about how to use it in graphical effects?

Cedric Moonen 26-Jan-11 4:51am

I'm afraid this is not possible, I can't just give an example like that in OpenGL. OpenGL is a quite complex library (but also very powerful) and it will require some time to learn how to use it properly. If you really want to do that, I suggest you buy a book about OpenGL (this one for instance: http://www.opengl.org/documentation/red_book/) and start learning from that. There are also some nice tutorials on this website: http://nehe.gamedev.net/ (but it is a bit more targeted to games).
I'm not aware of other cross-platform graphical libraries which are easier to use. Maybe you should google for it and see if you find something interesting.

yanxin 26-Jan-11 21:07pm

Thank you very much for your help.

Harrison H 26-Jan-11 16:37pm

Gotta say that OGL is the way to go for cross-platform graphics.