Genius idea but which language?

oxygene · 29 Jul 2008 at 09:37

Basically as the thread title says. I have an idea which I reckon is amazing, and no I wont share it

But I am not sure which programming language would be needed for it. Basically it would need on-the-fly graphical manipulation from live video streams, and the ability to interract with other programs...

tres · 29 Jul 2008 at 09:38

basic

oxygene · 29 Jul 2008 at 09:39

What? like visual basic?

tres · 29 Jul 2008 at 09:57

10 INPUT "What is your name: ", U$
20 PRINT "Hello "; U$
30 INPUT "How many stars do you want: ", N
40 S$ = ""
50 FOR I = 1 TO N
60 S$ = S$ + "*"
70 NEXT I
80 PRINT S$
90 INPUT "Do you want more stars? ", A$
100 IF LEN(A$) = 0 THEN 90
110 A$ = LEFT$(A$, 1)
120 IF A$ = "Y" OR A$ = "y" THEN 30
130 PRINT "Goodbye ";U$
140 END

oxygene · 29 Jul 2008 at 10:06

Hmmm I dont think the language has the power I need.

voodooflux · 29 Jul 2008 at 11:52

Do you have a host platform in mind?

oxygene · 29 Jul 2008 at 11:53

would probably be windows

voodooflux · 29 Jul 2008 at 12:03

oxygene said:
would probably be windows

If the processing is intensive then I'd say that C/C++ would be worth considering for that platform.

Something like C# on .NET is easier to code, but might not give the performance required.

Stretch · 29 Jul 2008 at 12:25

If you need to ask this question you almost certainly don't have the ability to build the app.

voodooflux · 29 Jul 2008 at 12:27

Stretch said:
If you need to ask this question you almost certainly don't have the ability to build the app.

He may be trying to recruit a developer resource with the right skills rather than trying to build it himself.

Inquisitor · 29 Jul 2008 at 12:42

trescodrucey said:
basic

Brain****

oxygene · 29 Jul 2008 at 12:53

Yeah a mix of the above actually. I have a little experiance in vb and thats it. No idea how to go about this without money or skills.
This is really annoying cause I got someone to sponser me to make a net cafe about 2 years before they appeared and had one on every corner... I need to get ahead of the curve again!

Dfhaii · 30 Jul 2008 at 12:45

For something like this which would need lots of fast processing it'd have to be c/c++ or assembler. You could look at toolkits like CUDA to do your number crunching on the GPU.