Beginning 3D Game Programming

Designing the User Interface

Now you need to implement a basic user interface for the few features that you'll be adding to the game (and some that you will add yourself when you finish the game, I hope). Earlier in this chapter, you removed two Dialog variables that were used to make the user interface for the empty project sample. Now you add back a new Dialog variable to create your own user interface:

// User interface for the game
private Dialog gameUI = null;

Of course, you need to instantiate this object somewhere, so find the constructor of the KartRacers class and add the creation code there:

gameUI = new Dialog(sampleFramework);

Regardless of what controls you end up having within this dialog, you need to have it rendered at some ...