Chapter 4. Command and Control – Input Handling
In the previous chapter, we talked about how to implement the world our game takes place in and the different objects that the world is made up of. In this chapter, we will focus on how to give the player the power to manipulate this world.
In this chapter we aim to learn:
SFML events and their purpose as input
SFML real-time input and its difference from events
A command-based communication system to deliver events in our world
How to dynamically bind keys at runtime
In the previous chapters, we have used events to manage input, but we have not really delved into what they are or what they are meant to be used for. That is the first point of this chapter. After that, we will look at more concepts of input than just simply events.
