class Engine

Defined in: C4Engine.h

The Engine class is the primary engine manager object.

Definition

class Engine : public Manager<Engine>

Member Functions

`Engine::GetEngineFlags`	Returns flags indicating the current C4API state.
`Engine::GetCommand`	Returns a system command.
`Engine::GetFirstCommand`	Returns the first system command.
`Engine::AddCommand`	Registers a system command.
`Engine::GetVariable`	Returns a system variable.
`Engine::GetFirstVariable`	Returns the first system variable.
`Engine::AddVariable`	Registers a system variable.
`Engine::WriteEngineConfig`	Writes the persistent engine configuration to a file.
`Engine::InstallReporter`	Installs a report handler.
`Engine::Report`	Reports a text message to the engine.
`Engine::InstallMouseEventHandler`	Installs a mouse event handler.
`Engine::InstallKeyboardEventHandler`	Installs a keyboard event handler.
`Engine::Quit`	Causes the engine to quit.

`Engine::OpenExternalWebBrowser`	Launches the default web browser and navigates to a URL.

Description

The Engine class is the primary engine manager object. It controls all of the other manager objects, provides low-level system utilities, and manages system commands and variables. The single instance of the Engine class is automatically constructed during an application's initialization and destroyed at termination.

The Engine class's member functions are accessed through the global pointer TheEngine.