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SFML Game Development

You're reading from  SFML Game Development

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849696845
Pages 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (5):
 Artur Moreira Artur Moreira
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 Henrik Vogelius Hansson Henrik Vogelius Hansson
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Jan Haller Jan Haller
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Henrik Valter Vogelius Henrik Valter Vogelius
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

SFML Game Development
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Making a Game Tick 2. Keeping Track of Your Textures – Resource Management 3. Forge of the Gods – Shaping Our World 4. Command and Control – Input Handling 5. Diverting the Game Flow – State Stack 6. Waiting and Maintenance Area – Menus 7. Warfare Unleashed – Implementing Gameplay 8. Every Pixel Counts – Adding Visual Effects 9. Cranking Up the Bass – Music and Sound Effects 10. Company Atop the Clouds – Co-op Multiplayer Index

Playing nice with your application neighborhood


Now what we learned in the last part is indeed handy, but it has got its problem. What if the user tabs out and tries to interact with the other applications that are running in the background? We would be constantly forcing the mouse back to the center of our window, making it impossible to do anything else than playing our game.

Believe it or not, this is actually very annoying for a lot of people, including ourselves. When we are debugging our application, this behavior will make it impossible to work with the IDE in the background. We have to detect when the user doesn't want to interact with us anymore and behave properly.

This is where events come in again. If you remember, we had the event types sf::Event::GainedFocus and sf::Event::LostFocus that notify the application as soon as the window gains or loses focus:

void Game::processEvents()
{
    sf::Event event;
    while(mWindow.pollEvent(event))
    {
        if (event.type == sf::Event...
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