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General discussions / Re: SFML 3 - What is your vision?

« on: April 25, 2014, 01:07:37 pm »

* a technique to insert an event (example: my_triple_mouse_click) to the event loop

Why would you need that? You can easily have a custom event queue on top of SFML's...

There is a little overhead in adding an own event queue. Just call window.pushEvent(myEvent) would be nice.

* timer events

Can you elaborate?

Lets say, you would like to close a window after some seconds, check for network after some time, save a game state on disk every hour and so on. I know, that these things can be done by a thread or checking for the clock every iteration. But I think, that would by a nice to have.

// start timer numer 3, just once after 60 ms
timer3.start(60, false);

...
    if (event.type == sf::Event::Closed)
        window.close();
    else if(event.type == sf::Event::Timer)
    {
        // which timer?
        // do something
    }
...

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General discussions / Re: SFML 3 - What is your vision?

« on: April 25, 2014, 11:33:21 am »

Hi,

* I vote for C++-11
* removing sf::clock and sf::thread and friends in favour of the C++-versions of it.
* a technique to insert an event (example: my_triple_mouse_click) to the event loop
* timer events

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General / Re: Help setting up SFML

« on: April 06, 2014, 02:21:52 pm »

For me, without knowing Java, it looks as the render window gets created and a millisecond later destroyed. Do you have to create the window "static"?

Again, I think a message loop could help.

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General / Re: Need some help with structs or classes.

« on: April 05, 2014, 03:20:08 pm »

I don't know VB, but have a look at "enum". How do you think about a C++ book? 

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General / Re: opening an SFML and a QT window in the same time

« on: April 05, 2014, 10:12:54 am »

Hi!

Side Note: You can do similar things with QT, so you don't need SFML for this.

Could you simplify the example a little bit and provide an event-loop like

while(window.isOpen())
{
        sf::Event event;
        while(window.pollEvent(event))
        {
...
 

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General / Re: Help setting up SFML

« on: April 05, 2014, 10:00:45 am »

For me it looks as your code is missing an event loop.