Question

Right now for my game, I have a scene manager and it runs a scene. What it does is send event messages to the scene such as render, input, etc. This has allowed me to make the scene unaware of the scene manager. I would now like the scene to be able to send the scene manager a message saying which scene it would like to switch to (in plain text). How could I do this without making the scene aware of the scene manager class?

Thanks

Answer 1

One way is to have the scene manager pass in NOT a reference to itself, but a reference to a smaller object that only supports the small number of methods needed for the particular messages to pass.

This could be an abstract class (aka “interface”) which the scene manager implements, or a separate object.

And if you’re using reference counting or smart pointers, consider making it a weak back-reference…