Add menu buttons

Creekmonkey

I am using the Game Master Template posted by ar2rsawseen I believe. While trying to add more buttons to one of the menus it seems that four buttons are all that it will allow. What would I need to modify to allow for more menu buttons?

pie

@Creekmonkey can you be more specific?
I suppose that you are trying to add buttons to start.lua (https://github.com/ar2rsawseen/GameTemplate/blob/master/start.lua)
I didn't try it but you should be able to do it by just copying/pasting a "button snippet" and change its graphics and actions.

local button = Button.new(Bitmap.new(Texture.new("images/options_up.png", conf.textureFilter)), Bitmap.new(Texture.new("images/options_down.png", conf.textureFilter))) randomize(button) button:addEventListener("click", function() menu:reverse() --go to pack select scene sceneManager:changeScene("options", 1, conf.transition, conf.easing) end) menu:addChild(button)

If you did it and you still can't see it maybe it's just outside of the screen:
you can try changing the menu object position from this line:

--position menu in center menu:setPosition((conf.width-menu:getWidth())/2, (conf.height-menu:getHeight())/2)

or scaling the menu object (I'd say it's a temp solution to see if your code is working because this would mess up your layout..)

--just add this line after menu:setPosition... menu:setScale(.5)

Creekmonkey

@pie Ive already tried the scale and position but it didn't help. Seems no matter how many buttons I add the last added just replaces the fourth in the list. I guess I could just add another menu but that seems inefficient.

talis

weird but i was able to add 5th button without changing the code. Just copy paste one of the button code and here it is. I guess either we are misunderstanding your problem either you are terribly doing something wrong:D

My all start.lua code:

--[[ ************************************************************* * This script is developed by Arturs Sosins aka ar2rsawseen, <a href="http://appcodingeasy.com" rel="nofollow">http://appcodingeasy.com</a> * Feel free to distribute and modify code, but keep reference to its creator * * Gideros Game Template for developing games. Includes: * Start scene, pack select, level select, settings, score system and much more * * For more information, examples and online documentation visit: * <a href="http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile/Gideros-Mobile-Game-Template" rel="nofollow">http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile/Gideros-Mobile-Game-Template</a> ************************************************************** ]]--   local function randomize(elem) elem:setPosition(math.random(-1000, 1000), math.random(-1000, 1000)) elem:setRotation(math.random(0, 360)) elem:setAlpha(math.random()) elem:setScale(math.random()) end start = Core.class(Sprite)   function start:init() --here we'd probably want to set up a background picture local screen = Bitmap.new(Texture.new("images/gideros_mobile.png", conf.textureFilter)) self:addChild(screen) screen:setPosition((conf.width-screen:getWidth())/2, (conf.height-screen:getHeight())/2) self:addEventListener("enterEnd", self.onEnterEnd, self) end   function start:onEnterEnd() --create menu --with 20px padding between buttons local menu = VerticalView.new({padding = 20, easing = conf.easing})   self:addChild(menu)   local button = Button.new(Bitmap.new(Texture.new("images/start_up.png", conf.textureFilter)), Bitmap.new(Texture.new("images/start_down.png", conf.textureFilter))) randomize(button) button:addEventListener("click", function() menu:reverse() --go to pack select scene sceneManager:changeScene("pack_select", 1, conf.transition, conf.easing) end) --add menu buttons menu:addChild(button)   local button = Button.new(Bitmap.new(Texture.new("images/options_up.png", conf.textureFilter)), Bitmap.new(Texture.new("images/options_down.png", conf.textureFilter))) randomize(button) button:addEventListener("click", function() menu:reverse() --go to pack select scene sceneManager:changeScene("options", 1, conf.transition, conf.easing) end) menu:addChild(button)   local button = Button.new(Bitmap.new(Texture.new("images/help_up.png", conf.textureFilter)), Bitmap.new(Texture.new("images/help_down.png", conf.textureFilter))) randomize(button) button:addEventListener("click", function() menu:reverse() --go to pack select scene sceneManager:changeScene("help", 1, conf.transition, conf.easing) end) menu:addChild(button)   local button = Button.new(Bitmap.new(Texture.new("images/help_up.png", conf.textureFilter)), Bitmap.new(Texture.new("images/help_down.png", conf.textureFilter))) randomize(button) button:addEventListener("click", function() menu:reverse() --go to pack select scene sceneManager:changeScene("help", 1, conf.transition, conf.easing) end) menu:addChild(button)   local button = Button.new(Bitmap.new(Texture.new("images/help_up.png", conf.textureFilter)), Bitmap.new(Texture.new("images/help_down.png", conf.textureFilter))) randomize(button) button:addEventListener("click", function() menu:reverse() --go to pack select scene sceneManager:changeScene("help", 1, conf.transition, conf.easing) end) menu:addChild(button) --position menu in center menu:setPosition((conf.width-menu:getWidth())/2, (conf.height-menu:getHeight())/2)   end

talis

downloaded the gametemplate form here:
https://github.com/ar2rsawseen/GameTemplate

pie

@Creekmonkey I think that there's something wrong in your code: attached you can find a "working example" made with copy/paste. I stopped at 6 buttons because others would go out of the screen (they would be there though if you plan to scroll the list later on development)
[edit talis was faster!]

talis

@pie you added 6 buttons i was at 5 only, so you beat me for this one

Creekmonkey

SOLVED - It was a typo in my code but I wasn't getting errors.

talis

happy that it is solved >-