I don't Understand SFML?

[j1CpDjzh]

I just started learning it, so obviously it's going to take me a little bit before I know it like the back of my hand, but I'm having trouble learning it.

I'm the type of person who likes to do a lot of functions, rather than having it all happen in the main loop, but with SFML it seems that everything has to be done in the main loop. I mean, I understand what the syntax means, but I just don't get how to put it all together and make a game out of it. Is there any advice that you can give to help me figure it out? Thank you so much in advanced.

(P/S: I'm working on a text-adventure-like game with a friend - he's doing the writing, and art. I'm doing the programming. So it's not anything too difficult, I'm just not entirely familiar with how SFML works.)

[Ganado]

It only makes logical sense that "everything" is in the main loop. Otherwise the program would just run for one iteration, and abruptly end. To help organize your code, I would suggest doing it like how Laurent does it in SFML's Game Development Book code: https://github.com/LaurentGomila/SFML-Game-Development-Book/tree/master/01_Intro

They break it so that the main loop calls functions like "handleInput" "update" "render" instead of doing everything in the main function's loop. See the game.cpp file in Source

[j1CpDjzh]

Ahh, thank you for the link. I didn't even think about using different files, until I saw that. It's a very clever way of doing things, and it all makes sense.