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[LemonMan]

Alright, I went looking for wchar_t and came up with stringw.

One problem.

Right now this is what part of my code looks like

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health->setText(varhealth.c_str())

This is awesome, but I want it to print out "Health: (varhealth)" not just the number.

How would I do this?

[Irme]

My C++ skill is limited, but i believe you do this:

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health->setText("Health: " + varhealth.c_str())

[LemonMan]

O.K.

Sorry Irme but that didn't work...

But I did find how to do it by looking at the fps counter at the end of each tutorial.

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int inthealth;

inthealth=100;

stringw varhealth = L"Health:";
varhealth += inthealth;
health->setText(varhealth.c_str());

Output is "Health:100"

YAY!

Thank everyone for your help.

I'll probably have more problems later though...

[LemonMan]

I have another question.

How would I make my character jump?

[Dances]

Reversing the gravity on your collision would be one way to go about it.

[LemonMan]

That would make it so that when you jump you start slow and end fast?
Usualy when you jump you start fast and end slow.

I also don't understand the event handler...

[Dances]

That would make it so that when you jump you start slow and end fast?
Usualy when you jump you start fast and end slow.

I also don't understand the event handler...

I don't think Irr's gravity is fancy enough to start you slow. I think you just move a set number of units based on time.

What do you not understand about it?

[LemonMan]

Everything...

I mean, something to do with the fact that is a function that comes before the main one and it is referencing nodes and stuff that have not yet been made. Did that make any sense?

[Dances]

Everything...

I mean, something to do with the fact that is a function that comes before the main one and it is referencing nodes and stuff that have not yet been made. Did that make any sense?

Main is always ran first. Functions can't call themselves. When you write a function before main the program still starts on main. Irrlicht calls the event receiver itself during the device->run() procedure.

[LemonMan]

Ohhhhhhhh...
That makes more sense.

Could you write me a quick example or the event receiver?

[Dances]

Ohhhhhhhh...
That makes more sense.

Could you write me a quick example or the event receiver?

Well... the movement tutorial has a nice simple example of one and how it works...

The GUI tutorial has another nice example of it...

[LemonMan]

O.K.

Thank you.

[LemonMan]

Hi again,

I have gotten the event handler thing but I don't know how to do mouse button handling.

This is the code i'm using,

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IAnimatedMeshSceneNode* uzi = 0;

class MyEventReceiver : public IEventReceiver
{
      public:
             virtual bool OnEvent(SEvent event)
             {
                     if (uzi != 0 && event.EventType == EET_KEY_INPUT_EVENT&&event.KeyInput.PressedDown)
                     {
                              switch(event.KeyInput.Key)
                              {
                                                        case KEY_SPACE:
                                                             {
                                                                       //shoot
                                                             }
                                                             return true;
                              }
                     } return false;
             }
};

help...

[SwitchCase]

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IAnimatedMeshSceneNode* uzi = 0; 

class MyEventReceiver : public IEventReceiver 
{ 
      public: 
             virtual bool OnEvent(SEvent event) 

             { 
                     if (uzi != 0 && event.EventType == EET_KEY_INPUT_EVENT&&event.KeyInput.PressedDown) 
                     { 
                              switch(event.KeyInput.Key) 
                              { 
                                        case KEY_SPACE: 
                                        { 
                                                  //shoot 
                                        } 
                                        return true; 
                              } 
                     } return false; 

// Add code here!!!!!!!!!

             } 
};

This code goes there...

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		     if (event.EventType == EET_MOUSE_INPUT_EVENT)
		     {
			     // switch
				// case
					//stuff
						// goes here
		     }

good luck.

[LemonMan]

What?