[SDL] Mouse Input + Delay problem

[Ankush Thakur]

Thanks a lot.

The book does look good, but follows C code :(

I would have been more happy with an object oriented approach, which I
believe is the basic for modern games.

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Leonardo Guilherme <
leonardo.guilherme at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have you ever tried "Programming Linux Games", from Loki's games?
> It covers well SDL and a simple 2D game is crerated through the book.
> If you search "Programming Linux Games" in google you'll eventualy find a
> link to it. It's an e-book.
>
> Good Luck!
>
>
> 2008/4/7, Ankush Thakur <ankush.gamedev at gmail.com>:
>
> > OK, thanks for the idea. Implementing it will take some time, so I'll
> > tell you later.
> >
> > By the way, I would *REALLY* appreciate a COMPLETE game tutorial for
> > SDL. It should be for a simple 2D game and must discuss ALL the aspects
> > involved right from start to finish. I'm particularly interested in class
> > design and game flow.
> >
> > As I'm new to game dev. + OOP, I am having lots of troubles. :(
> >
> > Please help me find some tutorials.
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Justin Coleman <jmcoleman at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > 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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