SFML Game Development

A command-based communication system

Up to now, you have seen how events and real-time inputs are handled. In our game, we might handle them as follows (the aircraft methods are fictional to show the principle):

// One-time events
sf::Event event;
while (window.pollEvent(event))
{
    if (event.type == sf::Event::KeyPressed
     && event.key.code == sf::Keyboard::X)
        mPlayerAircraft->launchMissile();
}

// Real-time input
if (sf::Keyboard::isKeyPressed(sf::Keyboard::Left))
    mPlayerAircraft->moveLeft();
else if (sf::Keyboard::isKeyPressed(sf::Keyboard::Right))
    mPlayerAircraft->moveRight();

There are several problems with this approach. On one side, we have hardcoded keys, so a user cannot choose WASD instead of arrow keys for movement. On the other side, we ...