Horizontal Scroll Menu

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• gorkem Maintainer

  November 2011

  Hi Brent
  
  Glad you liked Gideros Studio
  
  So far we've focused on graphical, native mobile application programming with a complete IDE & SDK. A native UI widget library will be one of our next targets, after the plugin infrastracture is written. This way, either us or any 3rd parties will be able to impmement native UI widgets.
  
  Thanks!
  
  

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• atilim Maintainer

  November 2011

  Although we don't give support for native UI elements, it's possible to implement a "Slide and Snap" menu to be used in games.
  
  Recently, we've published a Scene Manager class (http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/69/is-scene-transitions-supported#Item_8) and we're planning to extend by allowing page transitions by swipe gesture. When we release a new version, we'll announce here.
  
  Thank you
  
  
  

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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• triplejumpinc Member

  November 2011

  Hey Guys,
  
  Thanks for the advice. I can see Gideros becoming a very big player in mobile game development as so far it's really easy to use. I guess it's possible to create the menu because the game Tim Timber (created with gideros) has a slide snap menu when selecting the level.
  
  Thanks
  Brent
  http://apps.triplejumpinc.com

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• atilim Maintainer

  November 2011

  Thank you
  
  Yes, you're right. I've looked at the Tim the Timber's level selection menu code and it is about ~200 lines of code. The basic logic is as follows:
  1. Create menu pages
  2. Draw only the visible pages by addChild/removeChild
  3. on Event.MOUSE_DOWN, store the starting point
  4. on Event.MOUSE_MOVE, calculate distance between starting point and current point. If we move more than 10 pixels, start dragging pages around.
  5. on Event.MOUSE_UP calculate the speed of swipe and continue to move the pages until it locks.
  
  

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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• DaveyJJ Member

  February 2012

  Hi atilim,
  
  Did this code sample ever get released?

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• OZApps Guru

  February 2012

  @Atilim, to add to that, you can also add an Enter_Frame function that would keep scrolling based on a speed that decays/reduces and stops when it reaches 0, every mouse_move can increase it and mouse_up stop increasing it till it decays out.

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• atilim Maintainer

  February 2012

  Hi,
  
  Addition to @OZApps, there is a great code developed by @ar2rsawseen:
  
  http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/421/choosing-levels-and-packages#Item_1
  http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/480/gideros-game-template#Item_1
  
  

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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