[Gardon]

Yes, but how do I do event driven states in SDL?

it has the SDL_PollFunction, which you have to poll for events. Yes, it's stored in a queue, but it's nothing like java listeners that automatically handle the event when processed.

What can I do in C++?

Thanks,

Jason

[zenogais]

In your event polling loop, you check for different event types (SDL_KEYDOWN, SDL_KEYUP, SDL_MOUSEMOTION etc.). You then call all of your listeners on each event based on whether they are a keyboard listener or a mouse listener. This can be done very very easily using STL vectors or STL lists (probably you want vectors though). In this way when the event is processed it is dispatched to everyone who wants it, and that's event driven event handling in a nutshell.

[Gardon]

I guess when I say listeners I'm thinking about java, or even the WINAPI, as in you don't have to control when they take place, but just tell them what to do when they happen.

With SDL, I have to specifially poll for events, which is once per frame, and update accordingly. If it was different, I wouldn't have to worry about using vectors (which I'm currently doing), beacuse everything would happen based on the queue of events.

Jason

[zenogais]

C++ != Java, sometimes some stuff takes a bit more work, but works the same...tough luck. SDL is definitely not meant to work like Java, so it takes a little more work. The method I just proposed works exactly like the Java method, you just have to get a little bit more into the nitty-gritty details.

[DrunkenCoder]

[Gardon]

thank you