Pop-up Menu

KatApps

Hey all,

I'm wondering if anyone can advise, or direct me to a tutorial for creating a pop-up menu for my app?

(This meaning, if I press a button within my game a menu-box with some text can pop up on the screen. And then if I press another button within that menu, the menu will disappear again..)

Thanks so much!

MotherHoose

so many ways!

you can have the menu off-screen and trigger with:
-a gameAttribute (suggest Index type, though boolean works) named Menu

on button in gamePlay:
Rule: when
Event: touched is pressed
--changeAttribute: game.Menu To: 1 (or true if boolean, though 1 also works)

on menu items (have their Position.X set to correct X for when on-screen):
on Prototypes:
-add attribute real type named screenY and set at the correct on-screen Y
-add attribute real type named OffscreenY and set at the correct off-screen Y
Rule: when
Attribute: game.Menu = 1 (or is true)
--changeAttribute: self.Position.Y To: screenY
Otherwise:
--changeAttribute: self.Position.Y To: OffscreenY

on the menu button:
Rule: when
Event: touched is pressed
--changeAttribute: game.Menu To: 0 (or false if boolean, though 0 also works)

or still using attributes to change states
you can interpolate things … or change Color.Alpha … or pause game with a pause scene

@};- MH

tatiang

A Pause Game behavior (e.g. on a "Menu" button) works great for this, using when touch is pressed. Create a scene and add an actor that is the size of the pop up menu (say 1/3 of the size of the scene, centered). I use Illustrator to draw a rectangle with a thick border, but anything will work. Add a button (e.g. "Resume") on that scene with the Unpause Game behavior, using when touch is pressed.