Help Making Buttons

[PesticideUse]

Hey, I've searched a bit for a good tutorial on how to make buttons but haven't really found one.

it was recently suggested that i add buttons to my games and i believe that's a good suggestion.

i can use mousewhere, but don't want to have to check that "mx" and "my" are inside a box of coordinates around the button every time i click, for my games that could take a lot of time to put in... whatdotcolor could be used with mx and my but again that could take a bit of work, i would like a simple way to add the button into my game.

if anyone can suggest a good tutorial or help me out thank you

[michaelp]

http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=3583

It was in the Turing Walkthrough...

[PesticideUse]

Thanks , didnt use the GUI thing cuz im totally clueless when it comes to that lol but i went the the walkthrough and found some stuff

[michaelp]

Just remember to Search next time.
And I didn't even make that Turing Walkthrough thing a link, that's sweet!

[PesticideUse]

i did search, but not in the tutorial part... duh lol

[SNIPERDUDE]

Yea. The Turing GUI really isn't that good, but it is a good simple start. Check out my package I made for custom buttons, you might like it.

http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?p=167643#167643

And yes, anytime you mention the Turing Walkthrough it will auto link it for you!

[PesticideUse]

Very cool, probably wont put that in anything im working on now, but maybe one of my future projects

[SNIPERDUDE]

No prob.
Just remember to give the proper credit...

[Insectoid]

If all your buttons have the same X values, then you can check once for the X and then check what the mouse's Y value is.

code:

if mousex > X1 and mousex < X2 and button = 1 then     if mousey > button1y1 and mousey < button1y2 then         %do some stuff     elsif mousey > button2y1 and mousey < button2y2 then         %do other stuff     end if end if

This way you save a lot of code (I once had 12 or so buttons in a column, I saved a lot of time & space this way).

[PesticideUse]

will do sniperdude
and thank you for the pointer insectoid i didnt think of that

[SNIPERDUDE]

If you want to compact Insectoid's code; if all of your buttons are equally spaced you can use a for loop to check the coordinates.

[CodeMonkey2000]

Surprised that no one linked to this.

That's a solid introduction to classes, and object oriented programming. You probably should read all three parts, but the intro has a custom made button class.