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General / Check events outside event-loop

« on: February 18, 2016, 11:17:30 pm »

I want to write an input-manager to implement some functions: isKeyReleased etc
My idea was to have a function called update, this function polls for events and "saves" them.
Then later I can call isKeyReleased to check the event:

Update function:

void InputManager::update(sf::RenderWindow& mainWindow)
{
        rWindow = &mainWindow;


        while (rWindow->pollEvent(iEvent))
        {
               
        }
}

and then I want for example check the event type:

bool InputManager::isEventType(sf::Event::EventType eventType)
{
        if (iEvent.type == eventType)
                return true;
        else
                return false;
}

So in my HandleInput function in main:

InputManager::update(mainWindow);

if (InputManager::isEventType(sf::Event::KeyPressed))
        std::cout << "Key Pressed" << std::endl;

But it is not working! I don't know where the problem is.

Is there a possibility to "save" the polled events and check them later?