Hi,
I'm coding in C# for XNA.
I'm creating a "scene manager", as in frontend menu / gameplay / post match / ..., not a scene manager like a quad tree. (probably not a good name...)
I'd like to do have classes like GamePlayScene and FrontEndScene that inherits from a base Scene class.
And when I want to load the next scene:
...
SceneManager.SetScene<GamePlayScene>();
...
Where the SetScene method would create and load a new scene in a loading thread.
void SetScene<SceneType>()
{
//unload current scene
currentScene.UnloadScene();
currentScene = null;
//load the new scene
currentScene = new SceneType(...params...);
currentScene.LoadScene();
}
I think generics could be used for this, but I don't know how or even if it's possible.
I'd like to pass the class name of the new scene instead of an instance.
Because the scene manager holds the scene, not the calling function, and also because of parameters in the construtor, but thats not a problem, I could use an init method.
I could create an enum
enum SceneType{GamePlay, FrontEnd,...}
void SetScene(SceneType sceneType)
{
//unload current scene
...
//load the new scene
switch( sceneType )
{
case SceneType.GamePlay:
currentScene = new GamePlayScene(...params...);
break;
case SceneType.FrontEnd:
...
}
currentScene.LoadScene();
But then when I'll create a new scene class, I'll have too change the enum, the switch and a lot of stuff everywhere.
maybe generics are a bad idea? I don't know.
