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SFML Game Development By Example

You're reading from   SFML Game Development By Example Create and develop exciting games from start to finish using SFML

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785287343
Length 522 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. It's Alive! It's Alive! – Setup and First Program 2. Give It Some Structure – Building the Game Framework FREE CHAPTER 3. Get Your Hands Dirty – What You Need to Know 4. Grab That Joystick – Input and Event Management 5. Can I Pause This? – Application States 6. Set It in Motion! – Animating and Moving around Your World 7. Rediscovering Fire – Common Game Design Elements 8. The More You Know – Common Game Programming Patterns 9. A Breath of Fresh Air – Entity Component System Continued 10. Can I Click This? – GUI Fundamentals 11. Don't Touch the Red Button! – Implementing the GUI 12. Can You Hear Me Now? – Sound and Music 13. We Have Contact! – Networking Basics 14. Come Play with Us! – Multiplayer Subtleties Index

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Let's start small. Every game needs to have a window, and as you already know from Chapter 1, It's Alive! It's Alive! – Setup and First Program, it needs to be created, destroyed, and its events need to be processed. It also needs to be able to clear the screen and update itself to show anything drawn after the screen was cleared. Additionally, keeping track of whether the window is being closed and if it's in full-screen mode, as well as having a method to toggle the latter would be quite useful. Lastly, we will, of course, need to draw to the window. Knowing all of that, the header of our window class will predictably look something like this:

class Window{
public:
    Window();
    Window(const std::string& l_title,const sf::Vector2u& l_size);
    ~Window();

    void BeginDraw(); // Clear the window.
    void EndDraw(); // Display the changes.

    void Update();

    bool IsDone();
    bool IsFullscreen();
    sf::Vector2u GetWindowSize();

    void ToggleFullscreen...
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