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Window / Handling input in a state based approach

« on: December 02, 2010, 08:19:09 pm »

Hi. I'm writing a puzzle game using SFML2 for windowing and input, however my game's main loop looks like this

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//at init
this->input = window->GetInput(); //oinoput of type const sf::Input&

 while(//running) //while the current state is still running
{
   stateManager->stateLoop(input);
   this->window->Display();
}


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stateManager::stateLoop(sf::Input& input)
{
   //check various state flags
   currentState->HandleInput(input); //<-Need access to sf::Input& here
}


I'm unsure how to hand down input handling to each state. I have tried passing an instance of sf::Input by reference down through the state manager to the state but I was getting compiler errors about the class being non copyable. Any help would be great