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Window / Get win32 window handle (HWND) *SOLVED*

« on: October 14, 2007, 02:30:37 pm »

Your solution is the good one, except that you should return a sf::WindowHandle instead of HWND to keep portability.

I know some keys are missing, I'll fix it as soon as possible, that's not a problem

I will edit my code and the post .

Great! Thanks for a very nice API btw, I will post my project in the projects section soon, it's a 4 player network coop shooter, the network code is almost done, the GUI system is almost done and the gameplay code is maby 40% done .

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Window / Get win32 window handle (HWND) *SOLVED*

« on: October 13, 2007, 06:21:45 pm »

You have to dive a little bit into the sf::Window class, and then into the sf::WindowImpl class. But it should be very easy to get the OS-specific window identifier. Each sf::WindowImpl derived class (one for each OS) stores its window id, so you should be able to return it with a virtual function. There is even a portable type for it : sf::WindowHandle.

But, why do you need OIS ? If something in OIS is better than in SFML I should really think about adding it.

Thanks for the quick answer, you must have posted while I was writing my post .

Well.. the main reason is that i've been using OIS before and it's got all possible functionality i've ever needed besides for rumble for Xbox360 controllers but if i recall right only XInput handles that at the moment and that's probably not a concidence heh .

At first i didn't dig deep enough in SFML to notice that you're only missing a few defines to be able to use all keys either so i guess i could go with SFML's sf::Input too by only adding a few defs (i need all the keys on the keyboard for my network chat, the SHIFT keys for example) but now i've got OIS working anyways ^^.
Please add all the possible keys to:

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Key::Code WindowImplWin32::VirtualKeyCodeToSF(WPARAM VirtualKey)

If you've got time .

Great design on the lib btw!

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Window / Get win32 window handle (HWND) *SOLVED*

« on: October 13, 2007, 06:04:50 pm »

Ok I solved it, and here's the portable solution:

First make a getter for the window handle that is already stored in
sf::priv::WindowImplWin32 as myHandle:

FILE: src\SFML\Window\Win32\WindowImplWin32.hpp:

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public:
WindowHandle GetWindowHandle( void ) const;


FILE: src\SFML\Window\Win32\WindowImplWin32.cpp:

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WindowHandle WindowImplWin32::GetWindowHandle( void ) const {
return myHandle;
}


Now to not break the Linux/OSX portability we must add this functionallity to the other window creation methods as well:

WindowImplCarbon
FILE: src\SFML\Window\OSX\WindowImplCarbon.hpp:

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public:
WindowHandle GetWindowHandle( void ) const;


FILE: src\SFML\Window\OSX\WindowImplCarbon.cpp:

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WindowHandle WindowImplCarbon::GetWindowHandle( void ) const {
return myHandle;
}


WindowImplX11
FILE: src\SFML\Window\Linux\WindowImplX11.hpp:

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public:
WindowHandle GetWindowHandle( void ) const;


FILE: src\SFML\Window\Linux\WindowImplX11.cpp:

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WindowHandle WindowImplX11::GetWindowHandle( void ) const {
return NULL; // Or is there some kind of WindowHandle on Linux?
}


Then change the interface sf::priv::WindowImpl so that we can access the window handle from sf::Window later on.
FILE: src\SFML\Window\WindowImpl.hpp

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public:
virtual WindowHandle GetWindowHandle( void ) const  = 0;


Now add the getter to sf::Window that just calls the other getters:
FILE: src\SFML\Window\Window.hpp

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WindowHandle GetWindowHandle() const;


FILE: src\SFML\Window\Window.cpp

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WindowHandle Window::GetWindowHandle() const {
return myWindow->GetWindowHandle();
}


Well.. now it's possible to access the window handle from a sf::Window, but probably you'll want to be able to do sf::RenderWindow->GetWindowHandle() so lets do our last hack:
( sf::RenderWindow uses private inheritance from sf::Window so it will not be possible to just call GetWindowHandle() from the base class ).

FILE: src\SFML\Graphics\RenderWindow.hpp

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public:
WindowHandle GetWindowHandle(void);


FILE: \src\SFML\Graphics\RenderWindow.cpp

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WindowHandle RenderWindow::GetWindowHandle( void ) const {
return Window::GetWindowHandle();
}


That's it! now recompile sfml, if you're on Linux or Mac you must add the GetWindowHandle() method to the other window creation methods to get this code to work.

/ iiingo

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Window / Get win32 window handle (HWND) *SOLVED*

« on: October 13, 2007, 05:11:11 pm »

I've been hacking a bit in the code now but i can't seem to figure out a nice clean way to extract the window handle from a sf::RenderWindow, can someone recommend a good way to do this?

I need the HWND for OIS ( Object Oriented Input System ).

Cheers!

/ iiingo