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The changes planned for this chapter require that we rewrite our menu bar. Before we plunge ahead, let s do some brief design work to lay out this new main menu. It is always a good idea to sketch your graphical elements up front. You can even do this on paper. The point is to have in mind the graphical interface you wish to implement before you start writing code. While it is always possible to move menus and other objects around, it can also waste a lot of time. This is especially true if the application has to be approved by a manager, the customer, or anyone else. Doing a quick sketch on paper creates a basis for discussion and allows initial thoughts and ideas to be aired before a more formal design document or any code is written.

CHANGING THE MENU BAR While we are not doing a formal design here, let s at least write down the new menu structure we will implement. As shown in the following table, in addition to the File menu changes, we will also add an Edit menu to our application.

At the beginning of this book, I talked about the moment when, sitting at a noisy old Teletype, I realized that I had to learn how to make computer games Playing them was fantastic, incredible fun but I knew that I wanted to make them, too It wasn t only the feeling of being in the game world that attracted me; I could sense the expressive power of building that world, there beneath my fingertips The computer gave me the means to create an imaginary place, populate it with wonderful things, fill it with challenges, and then set a player loose in there to enjoy it all just as I had You ll hear a lot of talk about passion in the game industry I actually think the term is overused I wouldn t call the way I feel about designing computer games passion, in the sense of frenzied desire Frenzied desire is OK, but it tends to burn out after a while Rather, what I feel is closer to what the great designer Brian Moriarty calls harmony an ineffable sense of proportion and rightness It s the feeling you get when the last piece of the jigsaw clicks into place, when you understand the riddle, when you find what you have been seeking Writers on learning, invention, and creativity sometimes call it an Aha! moment In this book, I ve told some hard truths about the video game industry, and given a few warnings about its pitfalls and downsides There s a gap between knowing, intuitively, that you want to build video games, and actually getting a job and making your living doing it Don t let that put you off This book is intended to help you bridge that gap, and, in fact, you may find the gap isn t as wide as it seems Forewarned is forearmed: it s better to go into game development with an understanding.

The new menu structure for the MyPhotos application Menu Bar Menu Item Shortcut File Open File Save Save As Exit Add Remove Image View Next Previous Ctrl+A Ctrl+R Ctrl+N Ctrl+O Ctrl+S Description Create a new photo album (the existing album is saved if necessary). Open an existing photo album file. Save the current album. Save the current album in a new file. Exit the application. It should offer to save the current album if any changes have been made. Add one or more photos to the album. Remove the displayed photo from the album. We will leave this menu as already implemented. This contains a submenu indicating how the image should be displayed. Ctrl+Shift+N Display the next image in the album, if any. Ctrl+Shift+P Display the previous image in the album, if any.

The Integrated Agreement furthermore calls for collaboration as follows:

It is tempting to use our own terminology and establish our own conventions here. For example, why not use an Album main menu instead of the File menu, or have Ctrl+N as the shortcut for View-Next rather than File-New. The short answer: don t do it. Computer users appreciate familiarity and resist change (so do most consumers and small children, but I digress). The File menu is standard in most Windows applications, and Ctrl+N is used for creating a new object (be it a document in Microsoft Word, or an image in Adobe PhotoDeluxe). Unless you are intending your application to be somewhat contrary, use existing standards where possible. So even though Ctrl+N and Ctrl+P would make nice shortcuts for Next and Previous, we will stick with Ctrl+N for New and save Ctrl+P for when we add printing in part 3 of the book. We have already looked at menus in chapter 3, so this section will remove the existing Load menu and add our new menu structure.

Set the version number of the MyPhotos application to 6.1. REMOVE THE LOAD MENU Action 1 In the MainForm.cs [Designer] window, remove the Load menu from the File menu.