First implementation of doing the usual update/render dance.

boss/fight.cpp

@@ -186,6 +186,10 @@ namespace boss {
     $ui.render();
   }
 
+  void Fight::update() {
+    $ui.update();
+  }
+
   bool Fight::handle_mouse(game::Event ev) {
     using enum game::Event;
     $mouse_pos = $window->mapPixelToCoords($router.position);

boss/fight.hpp

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ namespace boss {
     void ANIMATE(game::Event ev, std::any data);
     void END(game::Event ev, std::any data);
     void render(sf::RenderWindow& window);
+    void update();
 
     bool handle_world_events();
     void run_systems();

boss/ui.cpp

@@ -82,13 +82,17 @@ namespace boss {
     $actions.render(*$window);
     $combat_ui.render(*$window);
 
-    $arena.play_animations();
     $arena.render($view_texture);
 
     $view_texture.display();
     $window->draw($view_sprite);
   }
 
+  void UI::update() {
+    $arena.tick();
+    $arena.play_animations();
+  }
+
   bool UI::mouse(float x, float y, Modifiers mods) {
     // BUG: arena is getting the _window_ coordinates, not the rendertexture
     return $combat_ui.mouse(x, y, mods)

boss/ui.hpp

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ namespace boss {
     void init();
     void set_window(sf::RenderWindow* window);
     void render();
+    void update();
     bool mouse(float x, float y, guecs::Modifiers mods);
     void status(const std::wstring& msg, const std::wstring &button_msg);
     void move_actor(const std::string& actor, const std::string& cell_name);

tools/arena.cpp

@@ -50,8 +50,7 @@ int main(int, char*[]) {
   dbc::check(main->$world == world, "GameDB::current_world doesn't match boss fight world.");
 
   while(!main->in_state(boss::State::END)) {
-    dbc::log("IDIOT! make this an update.");
-    main->$ui.$arena.tick();
+    main->update();
     main->render(window);
 
     if(main->handle_keyboard_mouse() || main->handle_world_events())