Hi guys, I''m currently working on a 2D Tile Based RPG. So far, everything is great. But now I''ve come to a problem of moving different objects at any time in a very easy way. But moving objects is not the only thing i want to do . Things like, drawing text for 5 seconds or doing other things for a certain time. Those activites all need more than 1 frame. The silliest variant would be like that:

BOOL bMovePlayerRight=TRUE;

if(bMovePlayerRight)
{
Player.MovePlayerRight();
}

That''s too static and nonflexible. So I tought about an event handler class and an event class.

#define EVENT_MOVE_PLAYER_RIGHT		1
#define EVENT_DRAW_TEXT				2

class Event
{
private:
	VOID	*vObject;			// Pointer to the object, we are going to draw the text with e.g.

	VOID	*vData;				// Pointer to 

	int		EventID;			// Tell the class which event 

	double	EventDelay;
	double	EventDuration;

public:
	Init(VOID *vObject,VOID *vData, int EventID, double EventDelay, double EventDuration);
	ExecuteEvent();				// Checks, whether it''s time (EventStartTime + EventDelay) to execute the event

};

class EventHandler
{
private:
	vector<Event> EventList;

public:
	AddEvent(VOID *vObject,VOID *vData, int EventID, double EventDelay, double EventDuration);
	ExecuteEvents();			// loops through the events and executes them

};

I''m unsure about that, so I want to ask you guys about that idea. I don''t know how it is handled in professional designed computer games. Maybe you can tell me something about it. Thanks

Is it rational to handle thing like movement of a player and text drawing or other timers in the same event class ?

Are the VOID pointers also good ? (pointers contains either the player object or the CText object)

What about function pointers for a better use?

I have no idea how it could be solved best.

rather than a void *, you might wanna derive your "controllable"
objects from an abstract base class.

class CControlable
{
virtual void Update ( keyList ) = 0;
};


this way you can handle your movements specifically for each objects.

How do complex games handle this stuff ? Do they write a method for each problem in order to run them by a script language ?

(e.g. Object.SetNewMovePos(); Text.DrawTextForATime(); Graphic.AnimateStatusBar(); )