Hi all! I have got to the stage in my game now where I need to implement a menu system on the title screen to get information to the program like network settings, no of players, etc. My question is, how have other people here implemented a menu system in fullscreen? Its a pretty simple menu that I want to implement: - New Game - Single-Player - No of Bots - Arena - Multi-Player - Host Game - IP Address - No of Bots - Arena - Join Game - IP Address Quit Any ideas on how to implement this? Should menu item be a Sprite and the selector sprite move up and down to certain XY co-ords that relate to each menu item? Would it look really bad just to implement a full-screen dialog as in the DX8 DirectDraw SDK example? Any suggesstions would be gratefully received. Thanks RM -=Kicking Butt and Writing Code=-

Okay....its nice to know that I''m on the right track, at least. So, if I was to implement a DirectDraw graphical menu, would it be something like this?

Create a bitmap of the menu items and place on the screen at specific co-ords. Store these co-ords as structs in an array, in order of position, either up or down. Have another sprite as a selector, and if the up or down keys are pressed, cycle through the array and draw selector sprite at the appropriate menu item bitmap. If selection key is pressed, find out which menu item was selected by comparing selectors current position co-ords to that of the menu items.
The problem, as I see it, is that I would then have to implement my own graphical text boxes to input data to the program. I have no idea how to do this. Do I use GDI to display and input text?

Does anyone have any examples or source code for this kind of thing? (preferably not MFC) Full-screen dialogs have their own text boxes and radio buttons and the like. I''m not really sure how to implement this stuff on my own.

Thanks for any info..

RM

-=Kicking Butt and Writing Code=-

Well, I wrote something like that, but the implementation is kinda weird and depends on the rest of my DirectX-stuff. But it''s not all that hard to do... I used textfiles to describe the menus, so I could just load those. Every Element (like a Textbox and so on) was a child object of CElement, so that I could just create them, put them in a linked list and redraw them anytime they needed to be redrawn.
The CMenu-class has a surface on which all the elements are rendered, and i just put this surface on the screen every frame. It is a bit of work, although the worst imo is the handling of the incoming events (like Clicks and so on).

There is also a series of Tutorials here on Gamedev which you might want to read to get some ideas.

All this does take a lot of time to do, at least if you want to do it good, but I would say it''s worth it as you can reuse it later on (at least if you do it well )