Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Does anyone know how to get to DirectX 8's Automation interface through Perl? It should be possible, because VB can do it. Any help would be appreciated.

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Re: DirectX
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Dec 11, 2002 at 05:09 UTC

    Win32::OLE 

    ...
use Win32::OLE;
my $DX83D = Win32::OLE->new( 'DirectX8.Direct3DCreate' );
...

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    Okay you lot, get your wings on the left, halos on the right. It's one size fits all, and "No!", you can't have a different color.
    Pick up your cloud down the end and "Yes" if you get allocated a grey one they are a bit damp under foot, but someone has to get them.
    Get used to the wings fast cos its an 8 hour day...unless the Govenor calls for a cyclone or hurricane, in which case 16 hour shifts are mandatory.
    Just be grateful that you arrived just as the tornado season finished. Them buggers are real work.

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      doesn't seem to work...
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        Has anyone gotten this to work properly? Is it possible to drive DirectX from Perl in this way? If not, is there another way? Surely a lot of people have wanted to write games in Perl.
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