Actually making menu using libgdx is pretty easy, but most probably because of the lack of tutorial or (proper SEO) initially it took me a little more time then usual to make it done, It has become easier for me when I have a look at their test cases provided. Let me share a simplified code with you guys. Here in this tutorial we will write code for a button that starts the game.
In our main method we have to run a new instance of LwjglApplication class which requires an ApplicationListener to launch. So we need to implement ApplicationListener for sure. As the Game class provides few extra benefit like setting which screen to show up and things. So in this blog I will be extending Game class. Game class has a setScreen method just changing it decides which method will be shown in the screen. We want to take advantage of it in future when the button will get pressed so I am sending a self instance of this class.
//MainMenuGame.java
package com.sadafnoor.MainMenu;
import com.badlogic.gdx.Game;
public class MainMenuGame extends Game {
@Override
public void create() {
setScreen(new MenuScreen(this));
}
}
Now we will be writing the code we are interested about. We will extend the screen class as it is required for setScreen(). We need to create a Stage to add our button which handles the viewing region and at the same time takes care of the input actions so we need to send it to input process as well.
stage = new Stage(); Gdx.input.setInputProcessor(stage);
We need to define the skin of our button which is basically the background color, fonts and so on.
BitmapFont bfont=new BitmapFont();
bfont.scale(1);
skin.add("default",bfont);
Now we need to define the style of our button, which is TextButtonStyle. Here will get a lot of options to deal with. we can define what colors will it take when the mouse is over it, when the button is pressed and so on. and then finally we can create our TextButtion. Then we can set the position of it and add it to the stage.
import com.badlogic.gdx.Game;
import com.badlogic.gdx.Gdx;
import com.badlogic.gdx.Screen;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.Color;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.GL10;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.Pixmap;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.Pixmap.Format;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.Texture;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.BitmapFont;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.SpriteBatch;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.Actor;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.Stage;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.ui.Image;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.ui.Skin;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.ui.Table;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.ui.TextButton;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.ui.TextButton.TextButtonStyle;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.utils.ChangeListener;
public class MenuScreen implements Screen {
Skin skin;
Stage stage;
SpriteBatch batch;
Game g;
public MenuScreen(Game g){
create();
this.g=g;
}
public MenuScreen(){
create();
}
public void create(){
batch = new SpriteBatch();
stage = new Stage();
Gdx.input.setInputProcessor(stage);
// A skin can be loaded via JSON or defined programmatically, either is fine. Using a skin is optional but strongly
// recommended solely for the convenience of getting a texture, region, etc as a drawable, tinted drawable, etc.
skin = new Skin();
// Generate a 1x1 white texture and store it in the skin named "white".
Pixmap pixmap = new Pixmap(100, 100, Format.RGBA8888);
pixmap.setColor(Color.GREEN);
pixmap.fill();
skin.add("white", new Texture(pixmap));
// Store the default libgdx font under the name "default".
BitmapFont bfont=new BitmapFont();
bfont.scale(1);
skin.add("default",bfont);
// Configure a TextButtonStyle and name it "default". Skin resources are stored by type, so this doesn't overwrite the font.
TextButtonStyle textButtonStyle = new TextButtonStyle();
textButtonStyle.up = skin.newDrawable("white", Color.DARK_GRAY);
textButtonStyle.down = skin.newDrawable("white", Color.DARK_GRAY);
textButtonStyle.checked = skin.newDrawable("white", Color.BLUE);
textButtonStyle.over = skin.newDrawable("white", Color.LIGHT_GRAY);
textButtonStyle.font = skin.getFont("default");
skin.add("default", textButtonStyle);
// Create a button with the "default" TextButtonStyle. A 3rd parameter can be used to specify a name other than "default".
final TextButton textButton=new TextButton("PLAY",textButtonStyle);
textButton.setPosition(200, 200);
stage.addActor(textButton);
stage.addActor(textButton);
stage.addActor(textButton);
}
public void render (float delta) {
Gdx.gl.glClearColor(0.2f, 0.2f, 0.2f, 1);
Gdx.gl.glClear(GL10.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
stage.act(Math.min(Gdx.graphics.getDeltaTime(), 1 / 30f));
stage.draw();
Table.drawDebug(stage);
}
@Override
public void resize (int width, int height) {
stage.setViewport(width, height, false);
}
@Override
public void dispose () {
stage.dispose();
skin.dispose();
}
@Override
public void show() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
@Override
public void hide() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
@Override
public void pause() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
@Override
public void resume() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
}
Now we will add callback function. When the key is pressed a callback function of addaction will get triggered and via our previously passed game we will change setScreen.
textButton.addListener(new ChangeListener() {
public void changed (ChangeEvent event, Actor actor) {
//System.out.println("Clicked! Is checked: " + button.isChecked());
textButton.setText("Starting new game");
g.setScreen( new GameScreen());
}
});
Altogether:
Sadaf Noor 