Creating a Custom Map Editor using XNA and Windows Forms

Question

I'm looking to create my own level editor for a game I'm making, and I came across the following post:

Tutorial or Example of creating custom sprite tool/map editor for XNA?

In the example posted by Blau, I am unsure what needs to be replaced in this line, and with what:

XnaControlGame.CreateAndShow<MainDialog, VoxelEditorGame>( );

If anyone could help at all, that would be great!

Answer 1

MainDialog is the type of your windows main form, that needs to implement IXnaFormContainer

//Form1 is the standard winform when a new WindowsForms application is created
public partial Form1 : Form, IXnaFormContainer{

//YourControl is some control placed on your form. I'm guessing a Panel will work
public Control XnaControl { get{return this.YourControl} }

//Game1 is your XNA game class
private XnaControlGame _game;
public XnaControlGame Game { get{return _game;} set{_game=value;} }
}

In the next step you need to alter your Game1 class

public class Game1 : XnaControlGame{  //instead of Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game
  public Game1 ( IntPtr handle, System.Windows.Forms.Form parentForm, System.Windows.Forms.Control surfaceControl) : base(handle, parentForm, surfaceControl){
    ...
  }
}

In the static void main

static void Main(string[] args){
  XnaControlGame.CreateAndShow<Form1, Game1>( );
}

Answer 2

This might not be what you want, but you're using an unofficial workaround to do this. I would honestly reccomend doing it the offical way with a UserControl, then you can even design inside the WinForms designer!

http://create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/sample/winforms_series_1