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Can you tell me what you think is the best way in making a menu?

The code should not affect anything but the menue-code. It should be good structures and I would like to use structs for it. And ofc its important that it's easy to make changes and add new things to it without to change the whole code and every single function.

I hope you know what I mean. It shall be an easy to handle and changeble menu.


This is no code request. I just want to collect ideas on how you create and organize your menu codes, so that I can see whats the best and cleanset way to do it

Thats really important to me and I am happy about every reply
Scorpion

As i am a big fan of XML, i am planing to use XML-files to define menus. I just would parse them and create the elements that are defined in it (Buttons, Text, Bmaps...) . You can link the menus together with simple "scripts" - But there will still be some hard-coding, like changing the settings.
Building a XML-parser for Lite-C would be some work, but you could also use simple .TXT-files. (I'm using TinyXML in C++)

I am currently designing the whole game<->dialogue stucture of Razor for my valentine and use a statechart for this to get the idea what I have got and in which subsystem certain thinks and modes are contained in. Later I will hardcode it in terms of the dialogue links and the menu behaviour and so on.

i am using texts wite invisble button above it it runs white 3 functions

its just how you want your buttons if at all
and what stuff it does need to do only start new game and load/save quit is easy

but making change volume/brightnis/lod/resoultion/brandwiedth/viewdistance/
shadersettings/keys/yostick/gamepad/mouse_sensive/enz.
is diffulcter

if you change resolution you need to change you bmap to not realy a big problem but it cost a memmory

and one bmap save's al lot more hardisk then 50 buttons but 50 buttons ore more looks nicer