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Help => General => Topic started by: Grime on February 20, 2019, 11:16:07 am

Title: Can I pull events without having a window?
Post by: Grime on February 20, 2019, 11:16:07 am

I need to pull events without having a visible window. Can this be done without a window class? If I need to have a window class can I have it be hidden and always taking events even when it's not active?

I want this because: standard library of C++ doesn't allow taking of input without 'enter' following the input. So I was hoping SFML could help me with it.

Of course I could probably use SFML for the entire project but I'm only doing simple stuff.

Can I pull events from regular console that pops up when you run a C++ program (I use windows, so presumably we're talking about the windows console).
(While using SFML)

Title: Re: Can I pull events without having a window?
Post by: eXpl0it3r on February 20, 2019, 02:15:54 pm

No, you can't poll events without a window. Even if you hide the window, you won't get events when you don't have the window in focus.
You can use sf::Keyboard::isKeyPressed(), but that will make your code quite ugly.

Title: Re: Can I pull events without having a window?
Post by: Grime on February 20, 2019, 05:08:25 pm

Hmmm, okay thanks.
How would I make a window hidden if I were to?

Title: Re: Can I pull events without having a window?
Post by: G. on February 20, 2019, 05:45:21 pm

With sf::Window::setVisible (https://www.sfml-dev.org/documentation/2.5.1/classsf_1_1Window.php#a160f7f11a207603d7e99ce606e749703)