Help with understanding the tutorials

[Geoffry_the_Deprogrammer]

Im attemting to use SFML in C# (because windows 8 cant run XNA) however because of this the tutorials are difficult to understand as i have no experience in C++, most of all, all the tutorials refer to "sf::" what does this actually mean, and is there a similar method i could use instead...?

[UglyIgloo]

Hi.


You'll have to be a little more descriptive in your post. I don't know C#, but I do know that it uses standard programming syntax as seen in most mainstream programming languages. (Java, C++, C#, etc.)


sf:: is a namespace to SFML, which means that it holds a variety of classes and functions that the SFML library uses. You could call "using" at the head of your file instead of calling the namespace, but I wouldn't recommend it, considering namespaces are convenient for creating new functions with similar names.

[Gambit]

UglyIgloo is right. Namespaces are a way to organize and separate functions, classes and other types and variables by putting them in their own named scope. If you do not understand namespaces I would strongly suggest brushing up on C++ or finding out what the equivalent is in C#. The tutorials are written for C++ since SFML was primarily a C++ library set a while back and has since grown to include iOS, Android and various other bindings.

[Hiura]

Long story short, sf::X maps to sf.X in C#. No need to know much more about C++ than that AFAIK.

You can find some example in C# here too (probably also in the SDK you downloaded, but I've never checked). https://github.com/SFML/SFML.Net/tree/master/examples

[Laurent]

Long story short, sf::X maps to sf.X in C#.

Not exactly

In C# the classes are under the namespaces SFML.System, SFML.Window, SFML.Graphics and SFML.Audio.

[Hiura]

Well, I've learnt something today!