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As a programmer, one of my inspirations for coding is the challenge to produce "perfect" code, clean, readable, and executes seamlessly.

 

as a programmer, one of my inspirations for coding is the challenge to produce code that works...

 

 

enjoyed reading your blogs...

 

--Mike

To add more design styles to your bag of tricks check out this thread on C++ events http://leadwerks.com/werkspace/index.php?/topic/255-c-events/page__p__1991__hl__event__fromsearch__1#entry1991

 

My examples are GUI oriented but event systems can be used in many situations besides GUI's. You can fire events when certain variables in a class change so that other classes can be informed when that happens so they can do certain things.

 

Let's say for some reason you want your enemies to know when the health of your player changes. You can either loop through each enemy and tell them the players health value each frame, or at the start of the game you can have enemies bind to the players OnHurt event. Then in the players Hurt() function fire this event so all enemies get it called.

 

There are many different things you can do with events as far as game design goes and it's another technique you can use.

To add more design styles to your bag of tricks check out this thread on C++ events http://leadwerks.com/werkspace/index.php?/topic/255-c-events/page__p__1991__hl__event__fromsearch__1#entry1991

 

My examples are GUI oriented but event systems can be used in many situations besides GUI's. You can fire events when certain variables in a class change so that other classes can be informed when that happens so they can do certain things.

 

Let's say for some reason you want your enemies to know when the health of your player changes. You can either loop through each enemy and tell them the players health value each frame, or at the start of the game you can have enemies bind to the players OnHurt event. Then in the players Hurt() function fire this event so all enemies get it called.

 

There are many different things you can do with events as far as game design goes and it's another technique you can use.

 

Wow, that's awesome Rick thanks a lot!! I'd imagine using a Event system like that would make multi threading a bit easier, do you code for a living?

Wow, that's awesome Rick thanks a lot!! I'd imagine using a Event system like that would make multi threading a bit easier, do you code for a living?

 

 

Yeah, been coding as a profession for about 9 years now. At work I use .NET but I prefer C++.