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Feature requests / Just-a-little-shorter way of getting corners of Rect<T>

« on: April 12, 2010, 02:28:19 pm »

Solution is as good as it fit my needs - ergo it is good solution dispite your opinion.
My point is - if a lot of people need a lot (different) of shortcuts - maybe one should take most wanted and put into SFML? Libraries are to make life easier and to programmers code less as far as I remember - but it's only my $0.03.

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Feature requests / Just-a-little-shorter way of getting corners of Rect<T>

« on: April 12, 2010, 01:29:48 pm »

In my code I pretty often use rects and calculate their corners, this is why I use a subclass of Rect<T> class to get following behaviour:

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template <typename T>
sf::Vector2<T> Rect<T>::GetP1() const
{
return Vector2<T>(Left, Top);
}

template <typename T>
sf::Vector2<T> Rect<T>::GetP2() const
{
return Vector2<T>(Right, Bottom);
}


I believe it could be useful to add it to SFML. It makes code like

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Rectangle(rect.left, rect.top, rect.right, rect.bottom, ...);
// or
Rectangle(Vector2f(rect.left, rect.top), Vector2f(rect.right, rect.bottom), ...);

a little shorter:

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Rectangle(rect.GetP1(), rect.GetP2(), ...);