[SDL] Mouse Input + Delay problem

[Justin Coleman]

Delay is a bad way to do that. What you need is a timer instead. Your
game loop should look more like this:

set timer for how long to display card
while game is playing
    if display time not expired
        redraw screen
        check for mouse clicked
             if click is detected
                 check for click coordinates in the right place
        decrement display time by amount of time passed since last loop

Hope that helps you.

-J

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Ankush Thakur <ankush.gamedev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am making a small game.
> The requirement is that an image will be displayed for some time (say 1000
> ms), and the user has to click on it.
> After the click, we must check for click coordinates.
>
> the general structure I follows goes like this:
>
> draw();
> checkForInput();
> delay for 1000 ms();
>
> The problem is that  mouse clicks are not getting detected. I guess it is
> because the mouse clicks happen when the game is waiting through
> SDL_Delay(1000), so we miss the input.
>
> The delay MUST be there because the image has to stay for a certain amount
> of time.
>
> Please help me out.
>
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