 | | | Minimum-effort in-game console? | Minimum-effort in-game console? 2003-11-23 - By Tim Conkling
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It's necessary that I have an in-game console (a la any first person
shooter since the original Quake) in the game I'm writing. This console
really only needs to be very bare-bones -- I'd like the user to see
what he or she is typing, and for the game to execute the user's input
when they hit enter or return.
Clearly this is not a hugely difficult task. However, being lazy, I'd
prefer that somebody else do my work for me. It would be awesome if
there was a (portable) way to capture cin, for example, into a
std::string, character-by-character (in a function that could be
executed repeatedly in my game loop). Failing that, it would be almost
as nice to be able to use a console somebody else has already written
and adapt it to my code.
This seems like it must be such a common task that I couldn't pass up
the opportunity to ask for a handout on this list. I could roll my own
(with Carbon Events, for example), but what I'm really looking for is
something written in ANSI C++ that won't cause problems if I ever
decide to port this. I'd also rather not spend my time debugging every
little nuance of the text input (non-English Alphabet characters,
diacritical marks or whateverthehell they're called, how exactly the
delete key should work, etc).
If anyone can point me in the direction of some free sample code or
some functions in the C++ Standard Library that I'm unaware of but that
would make this task easy, I would be really grateful! And it would
mean I'd have to do less work, which is what's really important anyway
:)
Thanks,
Tim
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