Popup in Scene Manager?

nextgamevertex · June 2012

Hi community,
I think Scene Manager is very good to start build game and app layout.
But as you know, there are many games require popup (like pause, setting..) that appear on top of other screen.
So I just think this is very good if scene manager support some thing like:

sceneManager:showPopup("pause", 1, transition), and then
sceneManager:hidePopup();

Can someone show some lines of code to implements this?
Thanks! :x

ar2rsawseen · June 2012

Ok, so basic idea would be to transition to other scene, without discarding current scene (keeping it in memory) so one could easily go back.
I see how this can be useful. Unfortunately don't have time to look at it right now, but I'm sure someone will. Someone always does

petec · June 2012

I have done that sort of thing by having the 'pop up' as a sprite, adding the sprite so that is on top of all other screen objects and setting its alpha to zero. Then when the pop up is called I tween its alpha to 1. I tween the alpha back to 0 to close the pop up. I add any settings buttons on the pop up as children of the pop up's sprite.
It's a bit basic but it works for me:-)

Scouser · June 2012

@nextgamevertex: I think I have just what you need. Find the attached project which opens a popup window after 5 seconds. The popupBox has a callback to allow you to add text, buttons & graphics to it. Hope you find it useful.

ar2rsawseen · June 2012

Awesome @Scouser
I'll use it in next GameTemplate edition

Already started working on it

Scouser · June 2012

By all means. When I get round to it there will be more stuff to add but I really need to concentrate on finishing one of the 8 projects I have in progress. Problem is I keep coming up with interesting solutions to problems unrelated to the current project and so starts another work in progress

Maybe I should also stop adding stuff to projects and get on with finishing them. That is the real problem, I decide it would be cool if the game had ?????? and then spend the next few days working on ?????? instead. Such is the life of a programmer with lots of half ideas

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ar2rsawseen · June 2012

oh how I understand you

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Mells · July 2012

A question : when you add an overlay (a Sprite on top of the others) how do you deactivate the buttons that are hidden behind the overlay?

Do you use a toggle to activate/deactivate buttons?
Do you add an eventListener to the overlay to catch clicks and event:stopPropagation()?
Is there another way to prevent buttons behind the overlay to be activated, without adding an eventListener to the overlay?

ar2rsawseen · July 2012

If you are inside game logic scene, then you'll probably have some sort of pause variable, which works like toggle.
But if you are using buttons, then even toggling, won't disable the push up/down states of buttons, so probably adding event listener to stop propagation is best bet.

Scouser · July 2012

@Mells:
I have added a boolean bActive flag into the button class & added a function to set / clear this flag.

I modified the button down eventListener to return if this flag is set therefore the button never gains focus when the flag is set. It's a simple but effective hack for my purposes.

Mells · July 2012

You gotta love this community

petec · July 2012

I do much the same as @Scouser. I have a buttonsOn boolean and check for it in the functions called by any buttons that are hidden by the pop up using something like:

if hitTestPoint(event.x, event.y) and buttonsOn then

buttonsOn is set to false while the pop up is open.

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