GameTools gameScreen

Most applications can get by with calling initScreen() with the title of the game as a parameter, then updateScreen() once per frame to swap the double-buffers. getMouse() returns a pointer to a gameMouse structure that contains the current mouse data and getScreen() returns the current screen settings (which you can modify) as a gameScreen pointer:

 void   initScreen ( const char *title ) ;
 void updateScreen () ;
 gameScreen *getScreen () ;
 gameMouse   *getMouse () ;

gameMouse

The gameMouse structure is returned from getMouse() and contains the current position of the cursor, the amount by which it moved this frame and the state of the buttons (use buttons & (1<<PW_LEFT_BUTTON) to query the left mouse button, PW_MIDDLE_BUTTON and PW_RIGHT_BUTTON being the other two):

 struct gameMouse
 {
   int  x ;  // Current mouse position
   int  y ;
   int dx ;  // Amount moved this frame
   int dy ;
   unsigned int buttons ;          // Which buttons are currently pressed down
   unsigned int lastButtons ;      // Which buttons were previously pressed down
   unsigned int justDownButtons ;  // Which buttons were just pressed
   unsigned int justUpButtons ;    // Which buttons were just released
 } ;

gameScreen

The gameScreen class is created for you inside initScreen(). You can use it to read the most recent keystroke (getKeyStroke()) or to test whether a particular key is being held down right now (isKeyDown()) - and also to set and get the screen dimensions:

 class gameScreen
 {
   bool isKeyDown       ( int k ) ;
   int  getKeyStroke    () ;
   void setScreenSize   ( int w, int h ) ;
   int  getScreenWidth  () ;
   int  getScreenHeight () ;
 } ;

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