Ruminate Example

Installation

The nuget repository for Ruminate is broken and won't install, so download this zip file which contains the RuminateGUI.dll file. Copy the DLL file into your project folder.

Then under project, click add reference and browse for the DLL file.

Setup

Click on project and create a new class, call it Screen.cs. Copy the following code:

using Microsoft.Xna.Framework;

namespace YourNameSpace {

    public abstract class Screen {

        public Color Color { get; set; }

        public abstract void Init(Game1 game);
        public abstract void OnResize();
        public abstract void Update();
        public abstract void Draw();
    }
}

Remember to use the original namespace from when you created the class.

Create a new screen

Create a new class from the project menu and name the class screen1. Edit the class declaration to make it a class of Screen:

class screen1: Screen{

}

Displaying a screen

Add the following variables into your Game1.cs:

Screen _currentScreen;
Screen[] _currentScreens;

public SpriteFont GreySpriteFont;
public Texture2D GreyImageMap;
public string GreyMap;

In the LoadContent method of Game1.cs add the following to load the textures and imagemap:

GreyImageMap = Content.Load<Texture2D>(@"GreySkin\ImageMap");
GreyMap = File.OpenText(@"GuiExampleContent\GreySkin\Map.txt").ReadToEnd();
GreySpriteFont = Content.Load<SpriteFont>(@"GreySkin\Texture");