Hit a wall

[buggys]

OK, so i'm trying to make a simple game with opengl, i want an inventory on the game to be initialized when i press the key 'I' and after that i want it to disappear when i press the key 'I' again,

So far i thought of doing an if statement, but with that i have the problems of the inventory closing straight away cos of going out of scope. Not entirely sure on how to do this because once its initialized i also want to be able to stop it from the user input.

Anybody input with experience or a good idea on what to do with this would be much appreciated.

Thnx
Buggy

void Display ()
{
	Screen Screen;
	
	 Screen.LoadMod();
//here i want to my invetory and possibly others as i go along.. but how i don't know
}

[zb0S216C]

Have you considered handling game states? For example, here's a quick game state handler:

enum GameState : unsigned int
{
    GameState_Inventory,
    GameState_GamePlay
} CurrentState( GameState_GamePlay );

enum Keys : unsigned char
{
    Key_Null = 'Q',
    Key_I = 'I' // Inventory
} CurrentKey( Key_Null );

while( true )
{
    switch( CurrentState )
    {
        case GameState_GamePlay:
            switch( CurrentKey )
            {
                case Key_I:
                    // Enter inventory
                    break;

                default: break;
            }
            break;

        case GameState_Inventory:
            switch( CurrentKey )
            {
                case Key_I:
                    // exit inventory
                    break;
            }
            break;
    }
}

[buggys]

its something I've never really looked into :P, will have a look now, see if i can find some examples simple enough for my brain :).

Thnx for the reply.