Controlling something using GUI buttons

[callimuc]

Since the iPhone versions are using the GUI buttons for the moving of the player, I was wondering how you could actually move the player by pressing it. Like is there a way to make the client think, that the player pressed a key (keydown()) even when the player just pressed a GUI? And how can it be made if the mouse slides over to the other GUI, that it won´t need to get reclicked?

The only way I was thinking of making it was this:

PHP Code:

//#CLIENTSIDE
function onCreated() {

  const PLAYER_SPEED = 0.2;
  const PLAYER_NORMAL = "block.png";
  const PLAYER_PRESSED = "lightblock.png";

  new GuiBitmapButtonCtrl("PadMovement_0") {
    x = 64;
    y = screenheight - 128;
    width = height = 32;
    text = "  Up";
    normalbitmap = mouseoverbitmap = PLAYER_NORMAL;
    pressedbitmap = PLAYER_PRESSED;
  }

  new GuiBitmapButtonCtrl("PadMovement_1") {
    x = 32;
    y = screenheight - 96;
    width = height = 32;
    text = " Left";
    normalbitmap = mouseoverbitmap = PLAYER_NORMAL;
    pressedbitmap = PLAYER_PRESSED;
  }

  new GuiBitmapButtonCtrl("PadMovement_2") {
    x = 64;
    y = screenheight - 64;
    width = height = 32;
    text = "Down";
    normalbitmap = mouseoverbitmap = PLAYER_NORMAL;
    pressedbitmap = PLAYER_PRESSED;
  }

  new GuiBitmapButtonCtrl("PadMovement_3") {
    x = 96;
    y = screenheight - 96;
    width = height = 32;
    text = "Right";
    normalbitmap = mouseoverbitmap = PLAYER_NORMAL;
    pressedbitmap = PLAYER_PRESSED;
  }
}

function PadMovement_0.onAction() {
  player.dir = 0;
  player.x += vecx(player.dir) * PLAYER_SPEED;
  player.y += vecy(player.dir) * PLAYER_SPEED;
}

function PadMovement_1.onAction() {
  player.dir = 1;
  player.x += vecx(player.dir) * PLAYER_SPEED;
  player.y += vecy(player.dir) * PLAYER_SPEED;
}

function PadMovement_2.onAction() {
  player.dir = 2;
  player.x += vecx(player.dir) * PLAYER_SPEED;
  player.y += vecy(player.dir) * PLAYER_SPEED;
}

function PadMovement_3.onAction() {
  player.dir = 3;
  player.x += vecx(player.dir) * PLAYER_SPEED;
  player.y += vecy(player.dir) * PLAYER_SPEED;
} 


[iBeatz]

You don't necessarily have to use a button object, you can use a bitmap just the same.
Try out the following events. I think this is what the iPhone servers use for their controls:

PHP Code:

onMouseDown()
onMouseDragged() 


[cbk1994]

There are functions for it but iirc they only work on Login servers (not positive about this, though).

[Admins]

Login-server scripts can emulate key presses for using the classic movement system. We will probably sometime switch to a scripted movement system like on Era though. On Era iPhone it's moving the player durectly, using onwall() for collision checks.

About the "moving finger to another control": the movement keys are not buttons, it's a normal GuiControl which is containing a few GuiShowImgCtrl and depending on the position inside the control (onMouseDragged) the zoom of the GuiShowImgCtrls changed.

[Emera]

Since he is testing this with a custom movement system, could he create some custom functions and then script the GUI around them?

[callimuc]

Hmm messed around on the movement, changed some stuff and came to this problem (it actually worked before I was changing some stuff).

PHP Code:

function onSetMultiTouchPadGUIs() {
  new GuiControl("PadMovement_0") {
    useownprofile = true;
    width = height = 32;
    profile.border = 2;
    x = 64;
    y = screenheight - 128;
  }

  new GuiControl("PadMovement_1") {
    useownprofile = true;
    width = height = 32;
    profile.border = 2;
    x = 32;
    y = screenheight - 96;
  }

  new GuiControl("PadMovement_2") {
    useownprofile = true;
    width = height = 32;
    profile.border = 2;
    x = 64;
    y = screenheight - 64;
  }

  new GuiControl("PadMovement_3") {
    useownprofile = true;
    width = height = 32;
    profile.border = 2;
    x = 96;
    y = screenheight - 96;
  }
  thiso.catchevent(this, "onMouseDown", "onMouseDragged");
}

function onMouseDragged(keymode, x, y) {
  player.chat = x SPC y;
} 


[DustyPorViva]

I wish I had an iPod because I have an idea for an awesome touchscreen control scheme that would beat the hell out of these ****ty d-pads emulators.

[callimuc]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

I wish I had an iPod because I have an idea for an awesome touchscreen control scheme that would beat the hell out of these ****ty d-pads emulators.

Open another thread to collect money and in turn you will make graphics again :P
Also what kind would it be? I pretty much like this one

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by callimuc

Open another thread to collect money and in turn you will make graphics again :P
Also what kind would it be? I pretty much like this one

Not even close.

[Gunderak]

But how would you test it on an iDevice even if you had one?

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by Gunderak

But how would you test it on an iDevice even if you had one?

I'm sure I could weasel my way onto a dev server or something.

[callimuc]

Originally Posted by Gunderak

But how would you test it on an iDevice even if you had one?

Hmm well I think I have seen somewhere in a post, that graal detects the taping with the onMouseDown() and such stuff. But I´m not 100% sure if this is true.

[0PiX0]

Originally Posted by callimuc

Hmm well I think I have seen somewhere in a post, that graal detects the taping with the onMouseDown() and such stuff. But I´m not 100% sure if this is true.

It's true.

[Gunderak]

Yes but I was talking about how would he get on a non iPhone server..
I would love to know if there is any possible way to.
I mean being able to test scripts on iDevices would be alot of fun.