Navigating Libgdx Menu with arrow keys or controller

Posted by Phil Royer on Game Development See other posts from Game Development or by Phil Royer
Published on 2013-10-27T17:26:15Z Indexed on 2013/10/27 22:02 UTC
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I'm attempting to make my menu navigable with the arrow keys or via the d-pad on a controller. So Far I've had no luck.

The question is: Can someone walk me through how to make my current menu or any libgdx menu keyboard accessible?

I'm a bit noobish with some stuff and I come from a Javascript background.

Here's an example of what I'm trying to do:

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39448/webgl/qb/qb.html

For a simple menu that you can just add a few buttons to and it run out of the box use this:

http://www.sadafnoor.com/blog/how-to-create-simple-menu-in-libgdx/

Or you can use my code but I use a lot of custom styles.

And here's an example of my code:

import aurelienribon.tweenengine.Timeline;
import aurelienribon.tweenengine.Tween;
import aurelienribon.tweenengine.TweenManager;

import com.badlogic.gdx.Game;
import com.badlogic.gdx.Gdx;
import com.badlogic.gdx.Screen;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.GL20;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.Texture;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.Sprite;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.SpriteBatch;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.TextureAtlas;
import com.badlogic.gdx.math.Vector2;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.Actor;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.InputEvent;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.InputListener;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.Stage;
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.utils.Align;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.utils.ClickListener;
import com.project.game.tween.ActorAccessor;

public class MainMenu implements Screen {

 private SpriteBatch batch;
 private Sprite menuBG;
 private Stage stage;
 private TextureAtlas atlas;
 private Skin skin;
 private Table table;
 private TweenManager tweenManager;

 @Override
 public void render(float delta) {
  Gdx.gl.glClearColor(0, 0, 0, 1);
  Gdx.gl.glClear(GL20.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);


  batch.begin();
     menuBG.draw(batch);
  batch.end();

  //table.debug();


  stage.act(delta);
  stage.draw();
  //Table.drawDebug(stage);

  tweenManager.update(delta);
}

@Override
public void resize(int width, int height) {
  menuBG.setSize(width,  height);
  stage.setViewport(width, height, false);
  table.invalidateHierarchy();
}

@Override
public void resume() {

}

@Override
public void show() {

  stage = new Stage();

  Gdx.input.setInputProcessor(stage);

  batch = new SpriteBatch();

  atlas = new TextureAtlas("ui/atlas.pack");
  skin = new Skin(Gdx.files.internal("ui/menuSkin.json"), atlas);

  table = new Table(skin);
  table.setBounds(0, 0, Gdx.graphics.getWidth(), Gdx.graphics.getHeight());


  // Set Background 
  Texture menuBackgroundTexture = new Texture("images/mainMenuBackground.png");
  menuBG = new Sprite(menuBackgroundTexture);
  menuBG.setSize(Gdx.graphics.getWidth(), Gdx.graphics.getHeight());

  // Create Main Menu Buttons

  // Button Play
  TextButton buttonPlay = new TextButton("START", skin, "inactive");
  buttonPlay.addListener(new ClickListener() {
     @Override
     public void clicked(InputEvent event, float x, float y) {
        ((Game) Gdx.app.getApplicationListener()).setScreen(new LevelMenu());
     }
  });

  buttonPlay.addListener(new InputListener() {
       public boolean keyDown (InputEvent event, int keycode) {
               System.out.println("down");
               return true;
       }
  });

  buttonPlay.padBottom(12);
  buttonPlay.padLeft(20);
  buttonPlay.getLabel().setAlignment(Align.left);

  // Button EXTRAS
     TextButton buttonExtras = new TextButton("EXTRAS", skin, "inactive");
    buttonExtras.addListener(new ClickListener() {
         @Override
         public void clicked(InputEvent event, float x, float y) {
             ((Game) Gdx.app.getApplicationListener()).setScreen(new ExtrasMenu());
         }

    });
    buttonExtras.padBottom(12);
    buttonExtras.padLeft(20);
    buttonExtras.getLabel().setAlignment(Align.left);

    // Button Credits
     TextButton buttonCredits = new TextButton("CREDITS", skin, "inactive");
    buttonCredits.addListener(new ClickListener() {
         @Override
         public void clicked(InputEvent event, float x, float y) {
           ((Game) Gdx.app.getApplicationListener()).setScreen(new Credits());
         }

    });
    buttonCredits.padBottom(12);
    buttonCredits.padLeft(20);
    buttonCredits.getLabel().setAlignment(Align.left);

    // Button Settings
    TextButton buttonSettings = new TextButton("SETTINGS", skin, "inactive");
    buttonSettings.addListener(new ClickListener() {
         @Override
         public void clicked(InputEvent event, float x, float y) {
           ((Game) Gdx.app.getApplicationListener()).setScreen(new Settings());
         }

    });
    buttonSettings.padBottom(12);
    buttonSettings.padLeft(20);
    buttonSettings.getLabel().setAlignment(Align.left);

  // Button Exit
    TextButton buttonExit = new TextButton("EXIT", skin, "inactive");
  buttonExit.addListener(new ClickListener() {
     @Override
     public void clicked(InputEvent event, float x, float y) {
        Gdx.app.exit();
     }
  });
  buttonExit.padBottom(12);
  buttonExit.padLeft(20);
  buttonExit.getLabel().setAlignment(Align.left);


  // Adding Heading-Buttons to the cue
  table.add().width(190);
  table.add().width((table.getWidth() / 10) * 3);
  table.add().width((table.getWidth() / 10) * 5).height(140).spaceBottom(50);
  table.add().width(190).row();

  table.add().width(190);
  table.add(buttonPlay).spaceBottom(20).width(460).height(110);
  table.add().row();

  table.add().width(190);
  table.add(buttonExtras).spaceBottom(20).width(460).height(110);
  table.add().row();

  table.add().width(190);
  table.add(buttonCredits).spaceBottom(20).width(460).height(110);
  table.add().row();

  table.add().width(190);
  table.add(buttonSettings).spaceBottom(20).width(460).height(110);
  table.add().row();

  table.add().width(190);
  table.add(buttonExit).width(460).height(110);
  table.add().row();
  stage.addActor(table);

  // Animation Settings
  tweenManager = new TweenManager();
  Tween.registerAccessor(Actor.class, new ActorAccessor());


  // Heading and Buttons Fade In
  Timeline.createSequence().beginSequence()
     .push(Tween.set(buttonPlay, ActorAccessor.ALPHA).target(0))
     .push(Tween.set(buttonExtras, ActorAccessor.ALPHA).target(0))
     .push(Tween.set(buttonCredits, ActorAccessor.ALPHA).target(0))
     .push(Tween.set(buttonSettings, ActorAccessor.ALPHA).target(0))
     .push(Tween.set(buttonExit, ActorAccessor.ALPHA).target(0))

     .push(Tween.to(buttonPlay, ActorAccessor.ALPHA, .5f).target(1))
     .push(Tween.to(buttonExtras, ActorAccessor.ALPHA, .5f).target(1))
     .push(Tween.to(buttonCredits, ActorAccessor.ALPHA, .5f).target(1))
     .push(Tween.to(buttonSettings, ActorAccessor.ALPHA, .5f).target(1))
     .push(Tween.to(buttonExit, ActorAccessor.ALPHA, .5f).target(1))
     .end().start(tweenManager);

  tweenManager.update(Gdx.graphics.getDeltaTime());

}

public static Vector2 getStageLocation(Actor actor) {
   return actor.localToStageCoordinates(new Vector2(0, 0));
}

@Override
public void dispose() {
  stage.dispose();
  atlas.dispose();
  skin.dispose();
  menuBG.getTexture().dispose();
}

@Override
public void hide() {
  dispose();
}

@Override
public void pause() {

}

}

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