Input and reading it

Hello,

Another quick question, If I want to get the results of a button being pressed. Is it possible?

Otherewise, the only thing I can think of is using a global class variable and creating a handler specifically for the input buttons such as factions, gender, and alien. Addtionally doing the same for the traits.

Vivienne

[code]

void ExistenceClient::CreatePlayerUIHandleClosePressed(StringHash eventType, VariantMap& eventData)
{
// set ui state to none
ExistenceGameState.SetUIState(UI_CHARACTERCREATIONINTERFACE);

// remove child nodeAddItem (UIElement *item)
scene_->GetChild("playerMesh",true)->RemoveAllComponents();
scene_->GetChild("playerMesh",true)->Remove();


// get intput
LineEdit* lineEdit = (LineEdit*)ui_->GetRoot()->GetChild("firstnameInput", true);
LineEdit* lineEdit = (LineEdit*)ui_->GetRoot()->GetChild("middlenameInput", true);
LineEdit* lineEdit = (LineEdit*)ui_->GetRoot()->GetChild("lastnameInput", true);
String firstnameInput = lineEdit->GetText();
String middlenameInput = lineEdit->GetText();
String lastnameInput = lineEdit->GetText();


SavePlayer(0);

ProgressScreenUI();

}[/code]

The code that actually do the input.

[quote]
void ExistenceClient::CreatePlayerScreenUI()
{

/// Get Needed SubSystems
ResourceCache* cache = GetSubsystem<ResourceCache>();
Renderer* renderer = GetSubsystem<Renderer>();
Graphics* graphics = GetSubsystem<Graphics>();
UI* ui = GetSubsystem<UI>();

ui->Clear();

/// Get rendering window size as floats
float width = (float)graphics->GetWidth();
float height = (float)graphics->GetHeight();

// set ui state to none
ExistenceGameState.SetUIState(UI_CHARACTERCREATIONINTERFACE);

// Login screen
// Create the Window and add it to the UI's root node
window_= new Window(context_);
window2_=new Window(context_);

// create first and secondary windows
uiRoot_->AddChild(window_);
uiRoot_->AddChild(window2_);

UIElement* titleBar = new UIElement(context_);
UIElement* contineButtonUIElement  = new UIElement(context_);
Text* windowTitle = new Text(context_);
LineEdit* firstnameInput=new LineEdit(context_);
LineEdit* middlenameInput=new LineEdit(context_);
LineEdit* lastnameInput=new LineEdit(context_);
Button* continueButton = new Button(context_);
Button* createnewplayerfacezoomButton = new Button(context_);

// Set Window size and layout settings
window_->SetFixedSize(384, height-100-100);
window_->SetLayout(LM_VERTICAL,12, IntRect(6, 6, 378, height-100-100));
window_->SetPosition(30, 100);
window_->SetName("PlayerCreatorWindow");
window_->SetMovable(false);
window_->SetOpacity(.6);

window2_->SetName("FocusCreaterWindow");
window2_->SetFixedSize(64,height-100-100);
window2_->SetLayout(LM_VERTICAL, 6, IntRect(6, 6, 6, 6));
window2_->SetPosition(1024+256,100);
window2_->SetMovable(false);
window2_->SetOpacity(.6);

// Create Window 'titlebar' container
titleBar->SetMinSize(0,32);
titleBar->SetVerticalAlignment(VA_TOP);
titleBar->SetLayoutMode(LM_HORIZONTAL);

windowTitle->SetName("PlayerCreatorTitle");
windowTitle->SetText("Player Creator");

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contineButtonUIElement->SetMinSize(0,32);
contineButtonUIElement->SetVerticalAlignment(VA_BOTTOM);
//contineButtonUIElement->SetLayoutMode(LM_HORIZONTAL);
continueButton ->SetPosition(6,300);

contineButtonUIElement->AddChild(continueButton);

//createnewplayerfacezoomButton->SetPosition(IntVector2(400,400));
createnewplayerfacezoomButton->SetPosition(700,200);
createnewplayerfacezoomButton->SetName("createnewplayerfacezoomButton");
createnewplayerfacezoomButton->SetStyle("createnewplayerfacezoomButton");

// Add the controls to the title bar
titleBar->AddChild(windowTitle);

// add components to the window
window_->AddChild(titleBar);

window2_->AddChild(createnewplayerfacezoomButton);

// Apply styles
window_->SetStyleAuto();
window2_->SetStyleAuto();

windowTitle->SetStyleAuto();

Node* playermeshNode = scene_->CreateChild("playerMesh");

//playermeshNode ->SetScale(Vector3(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f));
playermeshNode ->SetPosition(Vector3(1.0,-2,0.0));
playermeshNode ->SetRotation(Quaternion(0.0, 0.0,0.0));

loadplayerMesh(playermeshNode, 49,DISPLAYMESH_MUILTIPLECHARACTER);

playermeshNode->SetScale(2);

int factionlimit=3;

// create factions
factions faction[1];
alienraces alien[1];

int windowwidth=384;
int alienlimit=3;

//Button* factionbutton = new Button(context_);
UIElement * faction0buttonUIElement = new UIElement(context_);
UIElement * faction1buttonUIElement = new UIElement(context_);
UIElement * faction2buttonUIElement = new UIElement(context_);
UIElement * faction3buttonUIElement = new UIElement(context_);

Button * faction0button = new  Button(context_);
Button * faction1button = new  Button(context_);
Button * faction2button = new  Button(context_);
Button * faction3button = new  Button(context_);

UIElement * alien0buttonUIElement = new UIElement(context_);
UIElement * alien1buttonUIElement = new UIElement(context_);
UIElement * alien2buttonUIElement = new UIElement(context_);
UIElement * alien3buttonUIElement = new UIElement(context_);

Button * alien0button = new  Button(context_);
Button * alien1button = new  Button(context_);
Button * alien2button = new  Button(context_);
Button * alien3button = new  Button(context_);

Button * gendermalebutton = new  Button(context_);
Button * genderfemalebutton = new  Button(context_);

// set faction an
faction0buttonUIElement->SetName("faction0buttonUIElement");
faction1buttonUIElement->SetName("faction1buttonUIElement");
faction2buttonUIElement->SetName("faction2buttonUIElement");
faction3buttonUIElement->SetName("faction3buttonUIElement");

alien0buttonUIElement->SetName("alien0buttonUIElement");
alien1buttonUIElement->SetName("alien1buttonUIElement");
alien2buttonUIElement->SetName("alien2buttonUIElement");
alien3buttonUIElement->SetName("alien3buttonUIElement");

gendermalebutton->SetName("gendermalebutton");
genderfemalebutton->SetName("genderfemalebutton");

gendermalebutton->SetName("gendermalebutton");
genderfemalebutton->SetName("genderfemalebutton");

// set layout
int area=windowwidth/4;

UIElement * factionselectionUIElement = new UIElement(context_);
factionselectionUIElement->SetFixedHeight(32);

faction0buttonUIElement->SetFixedSize(area-2, 32);
faction1buttonUIElement->SetFixedSize(area-2, 32);
faction2buttonUIElement->SetFixedSize(area-2, 32);
faction3buttonUIElement->SetFixedSize(area-6, 32);

faction0buttonUIElement->SetPosition(0, 1);
faction1buttonUIElement->SetPosition(area*1, 1);
faction2buttonUIElement->SetPosition(area*2, 1);
faction3buttonUIElement->SetPosition(area*3, 1);

faction0buttonUIElement->AddChild(faction0button);
faction1buttonUIElement->AddChild(faction1button);
faction2buttonUIElement->AddChild(faction2button);
faction3buttonUIElement->AddChild(faction3button);

factionselectionUIElement->AddChild(faction0buttonUIElement);
factionselectionUIElement->AddChild(faction1buttonUIElement);
factionselectionUIElement->AddChild(faction2buttonUIElement);
factionselectionUIElement->AddChild(faction3buttonUIElement);

UIElement * alienselectionUIElement = new UIElement(context_);

alienselectionUIElement->SetFixedHeight(32);

alien0buttonUIElement->SetFixedSize(area-2, 32);
alien1buttonUIElement->SetFixedSize(area-2, 32);
alien2buttonUIElement->SetFixedSize(area-2, 32);
alien3buttonUIElement->SetFixedSize(area-6, 32);

alien0buttonUIElement->SetPosition(0, 1);
alien1buttonUIElement->SetPosition(area*1, 1);
alien2buttonUIElement->SetPosition(area*2, 1);
alien3buttonUIElement->SetPosition(area*3, 1);

alien0buttonUIElement->AddChild(alien0button);
alien1buttonUIElement->AddChild(alien1button);
alien2buttonUIElement->AddChild(alien2button);
alien3buttonUIElement->AddChild(alien3button);

alienselectionUIElement->AddChild(alien0buttonUIElement);
alienselectionUIElement->AddChild(alien1buttonUIElement);
alienselectionUIElement->AddChild(alien2buttonUIElement);
alienselectionUIElement->AddChild(alien3buttonUIElement);

UIElement * genderselectionUIElement = new UIElement(context_);
UIElement * genderfemalebuttonUIElement = new UIElement(context_);
UIElement * gendermalebuttonUIElement = new UIElement(context_);

genderselectionUIElement->SetFixedHeight(32);

genderfemalebuttonUIElement->SetFixedSize((area*2)-2, 32);
gendermalebuttonUIElement->SetFixedSize((area*2)-2, 32);

genderfemalebuttonUIElement->SetPosition(0,  1);
gendermalebuttonUIElement->SetPosition(area*2, 1);

genderfemalebuttonUIElement->AddChild(genderfemalebutton);
gendermalebuttonUIElement->AddChild(gendermalebutton);

genderselectionUIElement->AddChild(genderfemalebuttonUIElement);
genderselectionUIElement->AddChild(gendermalebuttonUIElement);

genderselectionUIElement->SetFixedSize(0,16);

UIElement * blankUIElement = new UIElement(context_);
Text * blankText = new Text(context_);

blankUIElement->SetLayoutMode(LM_HORIZONTAL);
blankUIElement->SetFixedHeight(32);

blankText->SetName("blank");
blankText->SetText(" ");

blankUIElement-> AddChild(blankText);

UIElement * playerUIElement = new UIElement(context_);
Text * nameText = new Text(context_);

playerUIElement->SetLayoutMode(LM_HORIZONTAL);

nameText->SetName("Player");
nameText->SetText("Player");

playerUIElement-> AddChild(nameText);

firstnameInput->SetName("firstnameInput");
firstnameInput->SetText("<firstname>");
firstnameInput->SetMaxLength(24);
firstnameInput->SetMinHeight(24);
firstnameInput->SetFixedWidth(125);
firstnameInput->SetStyleAuto();

middlenameInput->SetName("middlenameInput");
middlenameInput->SetText("<middlename>");
middlenameInput->SetMaxLength(24);
middlenameInput->SetMinHeight(24);
middlenameInput->SetFixedWidth(125);
middlenameInput->SetStyleAuto();

lastnameInput->SetName("lastnameInput");

lastnameInput->SetText("<lastname>");
lastnameInput->SetMaxLength(24);
lastnameInput->SetMinHeight(24);
lastnameInput->SetFixedWidth(125);
lastnameInput->SetStyleAuto();

UIElement * playernameinputUIElement = new UIElement(context_);

playernameinputUIElement->SetMinSize(0,32);
playernameinputUIElement->SetLayoutMode(LM_HORIZONTAL);

playernameinputUIElement->AddChild(firstnameInput);
playernameinputUIElement->AddChild(middlenameInput);
playernameinputUIElement->AddChild(lastnameInput);

// Personalty
UIElement * personaltytextUIElement = new UIElement(context_);
Text * personaltyText = new Text(context_);

personaltytextUIElement->SetLayoutMode(LM_HORIZONTAL);

personaltyText->SetName("personalty");
personaltyText->SetText("Personalty");

personaltytextUIElement-> AddChild(personaltyText);

// list view part
UIElement * personaltyUIElement1 = new UIElement(context_);
UIElement * personaltyUIElement2 = new UIElement(context_);
UIElement * personaltyUIElements = new UIElement(context_);

ListView * personaltyView = new ListView(context_);

Text * personalty1 = new Text(context_);
Text * personalty2 = new Text(context_);

//personalty1->SetName("Stubborn");
personalty1->SetName("Stubborn");
personalty1->SetText("Stubborn");
personalty2->SetName("Seductive");
personalty2->SetText("Seductive");

personaltyUIElement1->AddChild(personalty1);
personaltyUIElement1->SetLayoutMode(LM_HORIZONTAL);

personaltyUIElement2->AddChild(personalty2);
personaltyUIElement2->SetLayoutMode(LM_HORIZONTAL);

personaltyView->AddItem(personaltyUIElement1);
personaltyView->AddItem(personaltyUIElement2);

personaltyView->SetStyleAuto();
personaltyView->SetFixedSize(300,64);

personaltyUIElements->SetLayoutMode(LM_HORIZONTAL);
personaltyUIElements->SetStyleAuto();

personaltyUIElements->AddChild(personaltyView);

// add the rest of the window elements
window_->AddChild(factionselectionUIElement);
window_->AddChild(alienselectionUIElement);
window_->AddChild(genderselectionUIElement);
window_->AddChild(blankUIElement);
window_->AddChild(playerUIElement);
window_->AddChild(playernameinputUIElement);
window_->AddChild(blankUIElement);
window_->AddChild(personaltytextUIElement);
window_->AddChild(personaltyUIElements);

window_->AddChild(contineButtonUIElement);

nameText->SetStyleAuto();
firstnameInput->SetStyleAuto();
middlenameInput->SetStyleAuto();
lastnameInput->SetStyleAuto();
personalty1->SetStyleAuto();
personalty2->SetStyleAuto();
personaltyView->SetStyleAuto();
personaltyText->SetStyleAuto();

// set button style
faction0button->SetStyle("logofederationalliance");
faction1button->SetStyle("logoklingonalliance");
faction2button->SetStyle("logoromulanalliance");
faction3button->SetStyle("logononalliance");

alien0button->SetStyle("logohumans");
alien1button->SetStyle("logoklingons");
alien2button->SetStyle("logoromulans");
alien3button->SetStyle("logoorcins");

genderfemalebutton->SetStyle("genderfemale");
gendermalebutton->SetStyle("gendermale");

continueButton->SetStyle("continueButton");

// update
for(int i=0; i<FACTIONSLIMIT; ++i)
{
    //        scene_->GetChild("faction"+(String)i+"button")->SetStyle("");
}

SubscribeToEvent(continueButton, E_RELEASED, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, CreatePlayerUIHandleClosePressed));

// Subscribe also to all UI mouse clicks just to see where we have clicked
SubscribeToEvent(E_UIMOUSECLICK, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, CreatePlayerUIHandleControlClicked))

return;

}[/quote]

Vivienne

You can subscribe to the KeyDown event and read the event.key.

I have a HandleKeyDown.

Part of some other code uses

// Unlike the other samples, exiting the engine when ESC is pressed instead of just closing the console if (eventData[KeyDown::P_KEY].GetInt() == KEY_F12) {

So, I have to figure out what’s the equivalent for a button. I’ll probably use the MouseButtonDown event. I do have a rudimentary state system so I know which part of the UI I am in.

Vivienne

So far I have this. I just need to figure out a way to detect which button object was pressed which doesn’t seem to work for me.

:-/

[code] SubscribeToEvent(continueButton, E_RELEASED, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, CreatePlayerUIHandleClosePressed));

// released buttons
SubscribeToEvent(faction0button, E_MOUSEBUTTONUP, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, HandleMouseButtonReleased));
SubscribeToEvent(faction1button, E_MOUSEBUTTONUP, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, HandleMouseButtonReleased));
SubscribeToEvent(faction2button, E_MOUSEBUTTONUP, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, HandleMouseButtonReleased));
SubscribeToEvent(faction3button, E_MOUSEBUTTONUP, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, HandleMouseButtonReleased));
SubscribeToEvent(alien0button, E_MOUSEBUTTONUP, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, HandleMouseButtonReleased));
SubscribeToEvent(alien1button, E_MOUSEBUTTONUP, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, HandleMouseButtonReleased));
SubscribeToEvent(alien2button, E_MOUSEBUTTONUP, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, HandleMouseButtonReleased));
SubscribeToEvent(alien3button, E_MOUSEBUTTONUP, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, HandleMouseButtonReleased));
SubscribeToEvent(gendermalebutton, E_MOUSEBUTTONUP, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, HandleMouseButtonReleased));
SubscribeToEvent(genderfemalebutton, E_MOUSEBUTTONUP, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, HandleMouseButtonReleased));


// Subscribe also to all UI mouse clicks just to see where we have clicked
SubscribeToEvent(E_UIMOUSECLICK, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, CreatePlayerUIHandleControlClicked));


return;

}

void ExistenceClient::HandleMouseButtonReleased(StringHash eventType, VariantMap& eventData)
{
/// Mouse button released.
int button=eventData[MouseButtonUp:].GetInt();
int buttons=eventData[MouseButtonUp::P_BUTTONS].GetInt();

/// Nada so far - If I use Release it calls the function but the eventData is not correct
cout <<" " << button << " " << buttons;
cout << "released";

return;

}

[/code]

IMO a function named HandleMouseButtonReleased should handle all MouseButtonReleased events. Each button should ideally have their own callbacks. Here is an excerpt from my project:

Game.h:

[code]void SubscribeToEvents();

void HandleUpdate(Urho3D::StringHash eventType, Urho3D::VariantMap& eventData);
void HandlePostUpdate(Urho3D::StringHash eventType, Urho3D::VariantMap& eventData);
void HandleButtonDown(Urho3D::StringHash eventType, Urho3D::VariantMap& eventData);
void HandleButtonUp(Urho3D::StringHash eventType, Urho3D::VariantMap& eventData);
void HandleMouseAxisMove(Urho3D::StringHash eventType, Urho3D::VariantMap& eventData);
void HandleJoystickAxisMove(Urho3D::StringHash eventType, Urho3D::VariantMap& eventData);

void HandleButtonResume(Urho3D::StringHash eventType, Urho3D::VariantMap& eventData);
void HandleButtonExit(Urho3D::StringHash eventType, Urho3D::VariantMap& eventData);[/code]

Game.cpp:

void Game::SubscribeToEvents()
{
    SubscribeToEvent(Urho3D::E_UPDATE, HANDLER(Game, HandleUpdate));
    SubscribeToEvent(Urho3D::E_POSTUPDATE, HANDLER(Game, HandlePostUpdate));

	SubscribeToEvent(BUTTON_DOWN, HANDLER(Game, HandleButtonDown));
	SubscribeToEvent(BUTTON_UP, HANDLER(Game, HandleButtonUp));
	SubscribeToEvent(MOUSE_AXIS_MOVE, HANDLER(Game, HandleMouseAxisMove));
	SubscribeToEvent(JOYSTICK_AXIS_MOVE, HANDLER(Game, HandleJoystickAxisMove));

    SubscribeToEvent(_resumeButton, Urho3D::E_RELEASED, HANDLER(Game, HandleButtonResume));
    SubscribeToEvent(_exitButton, Urho3D::E_RELEASED, HANDLER(Game, HandleButtonExit));
}

void Game::HandleButtonResume(Urho3D::StringHash eventType, Urho3D::VariantMap& eventData)
{	
	Pause(false);
}

void Game::HandleButtonExit(Urho3D::StringHash eventType, Urho3D::VariantMap& eventData)
{	
	context_->RemoveSubsystem<Game>();
}

I agree. MouseButtonReleased was just the function name because I was testing using ButtonUp and ButtonReleased.

The actual code with the proper name that doesn’t work is below.

[code]void ExistenceClient::CreateNewPlayerScreen(…)
{

…
…

SubscribeToEvent(continueButton, E_RELEASED, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, CreatePlayerUIHandleClosePressed));

// Up buttons
SubscribeToEvent(faction0button, E_MOUSEBUTTONUP, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, HandleMouseButtonUp));
SubscribeToEvent(faction1button, E_MOUSEBUTTONUP, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, HandleMouseButtonUp));
SubscribeToEvent(faction2button,  E_MOUSEBUTTONUP, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, HandleMouseButtonUp));
SubscribeToEvent(faction3button, E_MOUSEBUTTONUP, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, HandleMouseButtonUp));
SubscribeToEvent(alien0button, E_MOUSEBUTTONUP, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, HandleMouseButtonUp));
SubscribeToEvent(alien1button, E_MOUSEBUTTONUP, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, HandleMouseButtonUp));
SubscribeToEvent(alien2button, E_MOUSEBUTTONUP, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, HandleMouseButtonUp));
SubscribeToEvent(alien3button, E_MOUSEBUTTONUP, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, HandleMouseButtonUp));
SubscribeToEvent(gendermalebutton, E_MOUSEBUTTONUP, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, HandleMouseButtonUp));
SubscribeToEvent(genderfemalebutton, E_MOUSEBUTTONUP, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, HandleMouseButtonUp));


// Subscribe also to all UI mouse clicks just to see where we have clicked
SubscribeToEvent(E_UIMOUSECLICK, HANDLER(ExistenceClient, CreatePlayerUIHandleControlClicked));


return;

}

void ExistenceClient::HandleMouseButtonUp(Urho3D::StringHash eventType, Urho3D::VariantMap& eventData)
{
/// Mouse button Up.
int button=eventData[MouseButtonUp:].GetInt();
int buttons=eventData[MouseButtonUp::P_BUTTONS].GetInt();

/// Nada so far - If I use Release it calls the function but the eventData is not correct
cout <<"Button Pressed  " << button << " Buttons " << buttons;
cout << "released";

return;

}[/code]

When you are capturing a button click you probably want to subscribe to Pressed, it is cross platform and tracks the mouse state through the down and up state. When detecting a button press you don’t want the ui mouse click which only happens when you click on a ui element but rather the MouseButtonDown. The UI and Input are different subsystems. Input is much lower level and doesn’t care what you click on. UI only cares about ui stuff.

I can switch it to use the release event. In the future I probably want to get the button click left or right info specifically the button up information.

Sidenote, I have to spend some time with the whole procedural terrain. Switching the code into a Procedural class. I think some people are curious that I got the Perlin noise running generating terrain leaving the possibility of infinite terrain in Urho natively.