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Get application state.

Started by googa Apr 26, 2006 at 1:15 AM 1 replies 850+ views

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Apr 26, 2006 at 1:15 AM

Hi, I'm programming a game here, and I have a problem: How can get the current application state (active/inactive) from within the game loop. (Windowed and full-screen). This is probably a very easy question, but I tried google in vain. All I want is a function like: GetApplicationState(); // returns a Boolean value (active / inactive) Thanks.

Enselic

Apr 26, 2006 at 1:27 AM

You can catch the WM_ACTIVATE message and have a bool in your app keeping track of if the last WM_ACTIVATE was of the inactivate or activate type. Then you check agains this bool in your loop.

googa

Apr 26, 2006 at 12:14 PM

Thanks Enselic, I was not handling the g_bActive variable properly in my game. I didn't know which message to use.

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