After much trouble trying to understand how to produce a second window, specifically for showing the game window, I have finally come to an understanding concerning wxDialog. Creating the separate window is actually quite simple and turned out to be much easier than I originally thought.  Instead of using the wxDialog’s constructors, I make a descendant of wxDialog called MyGameWindow to customize the properties. Keep in mind this is very basic. I figured I would list this on here for an easy quick reference.

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I’m happy to say that Lozzi Solutions is now powered by Movable Type 4.0, upgraded from the previous version 3.3.  It’s been an educational and pleasurable, yet difficult experience (at times) this past week after playing around with the MT4 internals.  True, plugin support is not up to par yet due to the new version, but it eventually will be.  In fact, I foresee MT4 being heavily supported in this area due to its increased ease of use and design efficiency (modules to name only one).  MT4 is not just the best version to date, it’s going to be the version that will attract more non-MT-users in MT history.

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