SFML Game Development

Updating the menu

So, let's see our code in actual use. Do you remember MenuState from the previous chapter? There we implemented some menu logic, so you could choose between two options. Now this can be cleaned up a lot; as a result the menu state shrinks drastically.

MenuState::MenuState(StateStack& stack, Context context)
: State(stack, context)
, mGUIContainer()
{
    ...
    auto playButton = std::make_shared<GUI::Button>(*context.fonts, *context.textures);
    playButton->setPosition(100, 250);
    playButton->setText("Play");
    playButton->setCallback([this] ()
    {
        requestStackPop();
        requestStackPush(States::Game);
    });
    mGUIContainer.pack(playButton);
}

The constructor initializes the buttons and packs them into the Container. As you can see, the lambda expression ...