C# - Developing Menu for XNA

[nicmck34]

Hi,

I'm having a problem developing a menu for a XNA project. I'm relatively new to C#.

The error that I'm getting is:

'Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.GraphicsDevice' is a 'type' but is used like a 'variable'

My class that has this error looks like this:

public override void LoadContent()
{
if (content1 == null)
content1 = new ContentManager(ScreenManager.Game.Services, "Content");
spriteBatch = new SpriteBatch(GraphicsDevice); -->This is where I get the error

myModel = content.Load<Model>("Models\\p1_wedge");
aspectRatio = (float)graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Width /
(float)graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Height;


//gameFont = content.Load<SpriteFont>("gamefont");
// A real game would probably have more content than this sample, so
// it would take longer to load. We simulate that by delaying for a
// while, giving you a chance to admire the beautiful loading screen.
//Thread.Sleep(1000);

// once the load has finished, we use ResetElapsedTime to tell the game's
// timing mechanism that we have just finished a very long frame, and that
// it should not try to catch up.
//ScreenManager.Game.ResetElapsedTime();

}

Please help

[Plater]

You need to create an instance of the GraphicsDevice to pass in.
It would be like passing the word int in a function instead of say 42.
So create an instance of that type (possibly a derrived type) and then pass that in.

[airl08]

You have to initialize the Device Graphics Manager:

SharedGraphicsDeviceManager graphics = SharedGraphicsDeviceManager.Current;

and then passing the Graphics Device to the spriteBatch:

spriteBatch = new SpriteBatch(graphics.GraphicsDevice);

This is for Windows Phone, I guess is the same for Xbox.