Your posts are much appreciated :)

The easiest way would be to check for the mouse button down and as long as it’s down, you set the bool to true and hence draw the graphic. When the mouse button is not down, you set it to false and not draw the graphic. This way as long as you have the button down, the graphic will be there!

I have a question. I’m new to this XNA stuff. When the mouse click is detected in the update method, how would I go about displaying a small graphic on screen for a moment? I tried using a bool that I set to true if clicked and false if it wasn’t and then in the draw method I check this before drawing the sprite. however, nothing appears. I’m assuming it’s because it happens so fast right? 1/60th of a second. Any help would be great :)

Keep up the awesome work!!

I just fixed the RSS issue you mentioned. My RSS feed will now show the full contents of every post vs partial. My front page will still display a partial text to make it less cluttered. Works very well now :)

Thanks for pointing this out again.
Nazeeh

I am not sure if I can change the way the RSS feeder works though. I’ll look into it though. The reason you see it the way you do is that I insert a “More…” link after the first paragraph usually so that my front page doesn’t display the entire post.

Good luck with your engine!! Exciting stuff eh?

Thanks for this article. I’ve been developing a little XNA game engine myself for learning purposes, and it’s helpful to get a good grasp on the basics.

p.s. could you modify your RSS feed so that it shows the whole thing? I hate having to visit the site just to read the whole bit; I’d much prefer to read your whole blog post inside the RSS reader.