Checkers

[ChanGeZi]

WE have been given a semestorial project...and i am trying to make checkers game... i wanted to give it a graphical look but i know nothing about graphics...can u guys suggest what i should do ? any tutorial that would help ..? and also what IDE should i use ? i have TURBO C++ , VC++ 2010 , Dev Cpp ...

thank you ! :)

[Moschops]

Do not use Dev-Cpp. Do not. Please.

[D80DSL3A]

I would recommend SFML as a good graphics package. I've used windows GDI, GDI+ and DirectX as well but SFML is way easy to learn and use (SFML = simple fast multimedia library).
Download and tutorials at: http://www.sfml-dev.org/

[ChanGeZi]

Okayz :) But which one should i use to make checkers using graphics.h ? and also can u guide me whether i should use getch() or system ("pause"); to stop the console from closing...which one is better and how ?

[D80DSL3A]

See the sticky thread near the top of the page titled "Console closing down".

[ChanGeZi]

thanks !