Simple Event Receiver Question

[Dark Logan]

Is it possible to have a EventReceiver that creates an Irrlicht Device and passes itself as EventReceiver?

I tried it with createDevice( ..., this, ...) and with IrrlichtDevice->setEventReceiver( this). Both doesn't work.

I just browsed the web and the forums and didn't find anything about that.

Any idea or must I have two classes?

Thanks, Dark Logan

P.S.: I use it for GameState Managment. Virtual GameState derives from IEventReceiver. And the actual State from Virtual GameState. Is the problem within this?

[vitek]

Sure you can. What do you mean it when you say it doesn't work. Is it failing to compile, or does it not run like you expect?

Travis

[Dark Logan]

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#ifndef INTRO_H
#define INTRO_H

#include <irrlicht.h>

#include "GameManager.h"
#include "GameState.h"

class Intro : public GameState {
      public:
             Intro();
             ~Intro();
             
             bool OnEvent( SEvent Event);
             
             bool run();
             
      protected:
                IrrlichtDevice* Device;
                IVideoDriver* VideoDriver;
                ITexture* IntroPicture;
};

#endif

This is the Header for my Intro Screen. It doesn't compile, it says:
In constructor `Intro::Intro()':
`irr::IEventReceiver' is an inaccessible base of `Intro'

The constructor looks like this:

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Intro::Intro() {
     Device = createDevice( EDT_SOFTWARE,
                            dimension2d<s32>(800,600),
                            16,
                            true,
                            false,
                            false,
                            0,
                            IRRLICHT_SDK_VERSION);
     VideoDriver = Device->getVideoDriver();
     
     // load IntroPicture
     IntroPicture = VideoDriver->getTexture("./media/startup.bmp");
     
     if( IntroPicture == NULL) {
         GameManager::getInstance()->changeState( NULL);
     }
     
     Device->setEventReceiver( this);
}

[vitek]

This is just a simple C++ question/lesson

Usually when you get a compile error it includes a line number. Look at what you are doing on that line and think about the error message carefully... In constructor `Intro::Intro()': `irr::IEventReceiver' is an inaccessible base of `Intro'. Now why would the base class IEventReceiver be inaccessible to a derived class Intro? Ponder that for a while.

For those that are reading this, don't just blurt out the answer. I'm hoping to help Logan.

[Dark Logan]

Well I had to put using namespace irr; in front of it.
vitek, you help me a lot with this. I think I won't forget about the namespaces again.
Thanks a lot, vitek