TL;DR: You have to do a "Low Level Keyboard Hook" and then write the screenshot function yourself.
Hey there Happenlancers, this is a quick aside technical post about windowing & fullscreen - more devlogs are forthcoming, promise!
I recently read "Fullscreen Exclusive is a Lie" by Mason Remaley and was happy to discover that Happenlance already offers most of the functionality recommended in the conclusion of the article. It's a good read and I recommend you investigate this on your own project before jumping into this quick blog post.
In the article, Mason dives into the ways you can enable, ... Read More →
Hey there Happenlancers, this is a quick aside technical post about windowing & fullscreen - more devlogs are forthcoming, promise!
I recently read "Fullscreen Exclusive is a Lie" by Mason Remaley and was happy to discover that Happenlance already offers most of the functionality recommended in the conclusion of the article. It's a good read and I recommend you investigate this on your own project before jumping into this quick blog post.
In the article, Mason dives into the ways you can enable, ... Read More →
This one's a doozy. I talk about new editor features, sprite serialization, new enemy behavior, game AI and game design, arrow physics, gif rendering, fast image resizing, and a new method for implementing a foolproof undo system.
As promised at the end of the video, here is the image resizing code as it currently exists:
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As promised at the end of the video, here is the image resizing code as it currently exists:
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In this devlog I show off the weekly progress, including level serialization and new editor tools. I also talk at some length about what kind of thought process goes into deciding how to organize and structure the data in a program, and specifically how that applies in the context of this game. I'm sure it will be familiar topic to most people in HMN. And finally I gripe for a bit about some C++ related problems we've been running into.
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