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Button operable Scene2d

Benjamin Schulte edited this page Jan 4, 2019 · 15 revisions

Installation

Add the dependency to your core project:

compile "de.golfgl.gdxcontrollerutils:gdx-controllerutils-scene2d:$cuversion"

For GWT, of course the source is needed in the HTML project:

compile "de.golfgl.gdxcontrollerutils:gdx-controllerutils-scene2d:$cuversion:sources"

and the inheritance in gwt.xml:

<inherits name="de.golfgl.gdx.controllers.controller_scene2d" />

Usage

Despite its name, you can use ControllerMenuStage and the other classes even without game controllers, but to make your game's GUI fully keyboard operable.

ControllerMenuStage

Use ControllerMenuStage instead of Stage in your game. Every Actor that should be operable by buttons must be posted to the Stage by calling addFocusableActor:

    stage.addActor(playButton);
    stage.addFocusableActor(playButton);

The initially focused Actor must be set by calling

    stage.setFocusedActor(playButton);

That's all. If the focused actor is not highlighted according to the skin's mouse over style, make sure that the actor is layed out correct before calling setFocusedActor, typically by calling validate() on a surrounding Table.

More options

You can also set an actor that is automatically hit when Escape (or back on Android) is pressed:

    stage.setEscapeActor(exitButton);

Check out the other set methods as well to change behaviour. If you need even more control, you can override most methods in ControllerMenuStage to adjust its behaviour to your needs. Interesting methods for this are isXxxKeycode and onFocusLost/onFocusGained.

ControllerMenuDialog

ControllerMenuDialog is a dialog adjusted to use with ControllerMenuStage: it automatically focuses its first button when shown, and restores the focus to the last Actor of the parent stage when hidden.

When you add own buttons to the dialog without calling the button() methods, make sure to add it to buttonsToAdd array. All Actors listed in this array will be posted as focusable Actors to the Stage when ControllerMenuDialog is shown.

Other Actors

controller-scene2d comes with actors that can be used with ControllerMenuStage. You can also get an idea of how controller-scene2d can be adjusted to your needs by looking into the sources.

ControllerScrollPane

ControllerScrollablePane is a ScrollPane that scrolls on arrow keys or d-pad buttons. The next focusable Actor gets the focus only if the ScrollPane cannot scroll any more.

ControllerSlider

ControllerSlider extends Slider. Its value is changed on arrow keys or d-pad buttons.

ControllerList

ControllerList extends Scene2d's List. On arrow keys or d-pad button the selected item is changed.

Example project

core-scene2d is shown with sources in raeleus' Shadow Walker UI demo.