scott wrote:
> I'm still working on it :-)

The XNA samples that MS gives out have the screens actually being removed 
and recycled when they're no longer active. The background screen just 
overrides the "Remove me when someone is on top" routine to not remove 
itself.  But you still want it to go away during actual gameplay.

I finally got it worked out, and I wound up doing factory methods for the 
various types of standard screens. It's kind of twisty.

Next on the list is refactoring the "InputManager" (which used to be an 
InputManager and an InputState) into the thing that manages the controller 
hardware and the thing that interprets button presses as actual semantically 
meaningful stuff (e.g., "enter" or "green button" translates to "menu entry 
accepted" on menus, but not during gameplay). Then I can override buttons 
and add UI sound effects as appropriate.

By the time I get a trivial "game" to test this whole infrastructure, I'm 
going to have a game possibly even worth putting out there. ;-)

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