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General / window.pollEvent() or real-time ?
« on: August 17, 2016, 11:22:27 pm »
Hi everybody !
To begin with, sorry for my bad english, especially if it sounds so cold and devoid of enthusiasm (cause the truth is that it's the absolute contrary).
11pm, i'm a bit tired, so I will be brief.
So ! I'm actually programming a 2D game with SFML (online action shooter), but I'm now stuck on the problematic of events. I know that there are 2 types of events : the ones we can retrieve with window.pollEvent(sf::Event), and the real-time ones (sf::Keyboard::[...]). What are the best practices for a videogame ? I have explored Google a couple of days without any conclusion. My system should work according to this "diagram" :
- Main loop :
- Inputs handling
- Game logic
- Rendering
So, the "Inputs handling" can handle events in two ways :
1. Call window.pollEvent() and send each event to associated listeners (game entities, etc...)
2. Browse each entity and call a handleInputs() method that will check for real-time inputs
I'm asking myself also about a thing, what is the best way to handle player movements for example ?
Update the position when a corresponding keyboard event is received, or set a flag (for example : action = MOVE_UP | MOVE_RIGHT, when up and right arrows have been pressed) and update the position during the process of "Game logic" ?
I apologize if I'm not as clear as I hoped.
Have a good day (or night) !
To begin with, sorry for my bad english, especially if it sounds so cold and devoid of enthusiasm (cause the truth is that it's the absolute contrary).
11pm, i'm a bit tired, so I will be brief.
So ! I'm actually programming a 2D game with SFML (online action shooter), but I'm now stuck on the problematic of events. I know that there are 2 types of events : the ones we can retrieve with window.pollEvent(sf::Event), and the real-time ones (sf::Keyboard::[...]). What are the best practices for a videogame ? I have explored Google a couple of days without any conclusion. My system should work according to this "diagram" :
- Main loop :
- Inputs handling
- Game logic
- Rendering
So, the "Inputs handling" can handle events in two ways :
1. Call window.pollEvent() and send each event to associated listeners (game entities, etc...)
2. Browse each entity and call a handleInputs() method that will check for real-time inputs
I'm asking myself also about a thing, what is the best way to handle player movements for example ?
Update the position when a corresponding keyboard event is received, or set a flag (for example : action = MOVE_UP | MOVE_RIGHT, when up and right arrows have been pressed) and update the position during the process of "Game logic" ?
I apologize if I'm not as clear as I hoped.
Have a good day (or night) !