Re: Maze game, two problems regarding painting
 
"WP" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message 
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Hi, if you've read my other thread "Which class should handle the request 
to open a file" you might know that I'm making a simple game where the 
user controls a character that needs to find its way out of a maze 
(doc/view, sdi, MSVC++ 2008).
The game is tile based and mazes are always 20*20 tiles. The document 
class holds a 2D-array of pointers to tile objects. There are a few 
different types of tiles and each tile knows how to draw itself (meaning 
each tile class has a draw() function that takes a CDC *).
I have two problems:
First problem: I don't want to redraw every tile all the time, only the 
tiles that have changed which means that when the player enters or leave a 
tile, that tile should be redrawn. Right now I have solved that by letting 
the tiles know about the view class and they call InvalidateRect() on it. 
It works, but I would like to remove that association.
Why?  Using InvalidateRect is the normal and easiest way to get a changed 
tile repainted.  See next answer for a way to paint only the tiles that need 
to be repainted.
Second problem: When the view needs to draw itself again, should I get a 
tile array from the document and call draw on each tile or should it call 
a function in the document class that calls draw on each tile? That would 
basically mean I introduce a draw function in the document, heh. But it 
also means that the view doesn't have to know about the tile class. How 
should I do it?
Hope I made some sense.
In the view's OnDraw function you can call GetClipBox to find out what area 
needs repainting.  If you want to take advantage of this so there is less 
unnecessay painting then you would want to iterate over the tile array and 
only paint the ones that are within the clip box.  You can structure this 
any convenient way: There's nothing wrong with the view knowing about the 
tile class.
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