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Window / Re: Using WindowHandle to get window input

« on: December 29, 2012, 02:23:27 am »

Thanks FRex, I just changed it to return a pointer to the sfml window.  Works fine now

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Window / Using WindowHandle to get window input

« on: December 28, 2012, 04:30:14 pm »

Hey all,

I'm using SFML in a graphics engine as the window manager.  In my game engine, I get the WindowHandle from the graphics engine, and then use it to create another SFML window in the game engine.  I use this new window to handle events.  (Basically, I wanted the graphics engine to handle graphics, and the game engine to handle input).

Unfortunately, the new window doesn't seem to be receiving any events.  Also, if I call isOpen() on it, it returns false.  In the graphics engine, I can loop through the events on the window and it works fine.  However, if I don't loop through events in the graphics engine, and instead try to loop through events in the game engine, it doesn't seem to have any events there.

Here's what I call in my game engine:

...
sf::WindowHandle winHdl = window_->getWindowHandle(); // this gets and returns the sf::WindowHandle from my graphics engine
   
sf::Window sfmlWindow_(winHdl); // send the window handle to a new sfml window
...

In my 'handle events' method (which is called every time we go through the main game loop):

void Game::handleEvents() {
   sf::Event event;

   if (sfmlWindow_.isOpen() == true)
      std::cout << "IS OPEN: " << (sfmlWindow_.isOpen() == true) << std::endl;

   // while there are pending events...
   while (sfmlWindow_.pollEvent(event)) {
      std::cout << "event type: " << event.type << std::endl;
      
       // check the type of the event...
       switch (event.type) {
           // window closed
           case sf::Event::Closed:
               //window.close();
               break;
   
           // key pressed
           case sf::Event::KeyPressed:
               //...
               break;
   
           // we don't process other types of events
           default:
            receiveKeyboardEvent(event);
            receiveMouseEvent(event);
               break;
       }
   }
}

Anyone have any idea what could be going on?

Cheers