/// <summary>
/// Activates the loading screen.
/// </summary>
public static void Load(ScreenManager screenManager, bool loadingIsSlow,
PlayerIndex? controllingPlayer,
params GameScreen[] screensToLoad)
{
// Tell all the current screens to transition off.
foreach (GameScreen screen in screenManager.GetScreens())
screen.ExitScreen();
// Create and activate the loading screen.
LoadingScreen loadingScreen = new LoadingScreen(screenManager,
loadingIsSlow,
screensToLoad);
screenManager.AddScreen(loadingScreen, controllingPlayer);
}
/// <summary>
/// Activates the loading screen.
/// </summary>
public static void Load(ScreenManager screenManager, bool loadingIsSlow,
PlayerIndex?controllingPlayer,
params GameScreen[] screensToLoad)
{
// Tell all the current screens to transition off.
foreach (GameScreen screen in screenManager.GetScreens())
{
screen.ExitScreen();
}
// Create and activate the loading screen.
LoadingScreen loadingScreen = new LoadingScreen(screenManager,
loadingIsSlow,
screensToLoad);
screenManager.AddScreen(loadingScreen, controllingPlayer);
}
/// <summary>
/// Draws the loading screen.
/// </summary>
public override void Draw(GameTime gameTime)
{
// If we are the only active screen, that means all the previous screens
// must have finished transitioning off. We check for this in the Draw
// method, rather than in Update, because it isn't enough just for the
// screens to be gone: in order for the transition to look good we must
// have actually drawn a frame without them before we perform the load.
if ((ScreenState == ScreenState.Active) &&
(ScreenManager.GetScreens().Length == 1))
{
otherScreensAreGone = true;
}
// The gameplay screen takes a while to load, so we display a loading
// message while that is going on, but the menus load very quickly, and
// it would look silly if we flashed this up for just a fraction of a
// second while returning from the game to the menus. This parameter
// tells us how long the loading is going to take, so we know whether
// to bother drawing the message.
if (loadingIsSlow)
{
SpriteBatch spriteBatch = ScreenManager.SpriteBatch;
SpriteFont font = ScreenManager.Font;
const string message = "Loading...";
// Center the text in the viewport.
Viewport viewport = ScreenManager.GraphicsDevice.Viewport;
Vector2 viewportSize = new Vector2(viewport.Width, viewport.Height);
Vector2 textSize = font.MeasureString(message);
Vector2 textPosition = (viewportSize - textSize) / 2;
Color color = Color.White * TransitionAlpha;
// Draw the text.
spriteBatch.Begin();
spriteBatch.DrawString(font, message, textPosition, color);
spriteBatch.End();
}
}