3. Menu - a-roy/pacman-mp GitHub Wiki
A menu item can be in one of these forms:
- Static text that has a function on selection
- Main menu: Host game, Join game, Quit
- Host lobby: Start game, Close lobby
- An enumeration which can be cycled through
- Host lobby: Field selection
- Client connected: Character selection
- A numerical value that can be incremented or decremented
- Join game: IP address and port
- A toggle switch
- Client connected: Ready
- Static text that can't be selected
- Join game: Symbols
A menu is usually vertical, but the join game screen uses a horizontal version.
We can implement this as an abstract MenuItem class, with virtual Forward, Backward, and Render functions. A Menu object contains a vector of these items and provides Update and Render functions.
Class hierarchy derived from MenuItem:
InactiveMenuItemFunctionalMenuItemEnumMenuItemFieldMenuItemCharacterMenuItem
IntMenuItemToggleMenuItem