Cripes! - The Snipes clone
After doing a little more reasearch, I tried using CreateConsoleScreenBuffer() to create a separate buffer for Cripes to draw to. It turns out that separate screen buffers keep separate state, so I don't really need to worry about saving the old state. My Game class constructor handles the set-up of the console window, and here's the source code:
Game::Game() : hOut(CreateConsoleScreenBuffer(GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE, 0, NULL, CONSOLE_TEXTMODE_BUFFER, NULL)), hIn(GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE)), hPrev(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE)), world(40, 25){ if (hOut == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) throw std::exception("Unable to create new console buffer."); else if (hIn == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) throw std::exception("Unable to access console input buffer."); if (!SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer(hOut)) throw std::exception("Unable to set the active console buffer."); SMALL_RECT win_size = {0, 0, 39, 24}; SetConsoleWindowInfo(hOut, true, &win_size); COORD buff_size = {40, 25}; SetConsoleScreenBufferSize(hOut, buff_size); SetConsoleTitle("Cripes 2.0 - A Snipes Clone"); CONSOLE_CURSOR_INFO cci; GetConsoleCursorInfo(hOut, &cci); cci.bVisible = false; SetConsoleCursorInfo(hOut, &cci);}It's actually more simple than I expected. The initializer list sets up the handles and gives our World its dimensions, and the block of if-statements makes sure they're all valid. The next block of code sets the window size, then the buffer size. You actually have to do it in that order here, otherwise we'd set a buffer smaller than the window, which Win32 doesn't like. Then we set the title, and I make the cursor invisible. Take a look:
It actually looks like a normal window filled with a solid blue color. Or it would if the icon didn't scream "CONSOLE!!" I made it that color via a world.FillColor() function I'm using for testing purposes only, so I can see if this stuff is working properly. It is.
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~Jonathan
EDIT: I don't know what happened here, but it sure looks interesting!
EDIT 2: Ah, I botched my conversion from 2D coordinates to 1D indices.
