In an earlier post, we discussed different methods of gathering keyboard input in Windows. Today, we will cover how multi-platform and multi-device input can be handled in a straightforward way, showing a very efficient implementation of the underlying parts.
After a bit more than three months of blogging, this blog has already managed to accumulate more than 3000 hits – thank you for reading, keep spreading the word!
Besides, I’ve recently been accepted as a writer for #altdevblogaday, so expect to see some technical articles there as well. My first blog post went live on Tuesday – I’m happy to be part of such a passionate community!
While other languages such as C# offer type-safe callbacks/delegates out-of-the-box, C++ unfortunately does not offer such features. But delegates and events provide a nice way of “coupling” completely unrelated classes without having to write a lot of boilerplate code.
This blog post describes a generic, type-safe implementation of such delegates and events using advanced C++ features such as non-type template arguments and partial template specialization, supporting both free functions and member functions alike, without any restrictions or dynamic memory allocation.
Building upon the low-level API introduced in an earlier post, we will take a look at the platform-independent high-level API today, which provides support for the things that are to be expected from a game engine file system.
Dealing with function template code can sometimes result in errors being emitted by the compiler because template argument deduction is ambiguous. Most of the time, casts are used to battle these errors, but often there’s a more elegant solution to the problem.
Working with Windows, such a seemingly simple task such as handling keyboard input can turn into a small engineering nightmare. There is a myriad of deceitful APIs for basically doing the same thing, yet every single one of them has its own flaws. This post details how this was solved in Molecule – read on for a journey through Windows hell.
