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Looking for Text Tips

by David Helmer · in iTorque 2D · 05/29/2012 (6:17 pm) · 4 replies

Hey guys,

I've been reading a lot of forum posts about using Text in iTorque2D and I'm considering 2 angles I guess.
      Use GUI to display text: since the GUI elements are not mentioned in the latest documentation, I don't know how well it is supported. I'm going to use the 2 scenegraph approach to build my GUI for the most part and only need GUI for text since as I understand it, TextObjects just don't cut it for text.
      Use UIKit to display text: I read the tutorial for interacting with UI kit and then I thought for a moment I could build a bunch of UI using UIKit. I guess my concern is that my artist doesn't have a mac so my review builds for him will cease to work without some kind of work around. I also anticipate that I'll have issues with managing input to the scene graph if I'm displaying UI Kit above it.

If anyone has best practices or ideas for how I should proceed with text in my UI, let me know.
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Torque Owner Johnny Vo
#1
05/29/2012 (8:11 pm)
Use torque GUI. It has alot of features for text.

Here's my suggestion use what is most easiest...that will be the built in GUI system. After you use that and you find that it doesn't have the capabilities you need and you can't work around it then look into another solution.

Torque Owner David Helmer
The Kids
#2
05/29/2012 (8:15 pm)
Great, should I just check out the T2D documentation for GUI instructions or is there some other resource I should use.

And should there be anything I should look out for at the beginning for Universal support.

Thanks!

Torque Owner Johnny Vo
#3
05/29/2012 (8:25 pm)
Okay didn't realize you were going to do universal. I can't completely recommend using it2d GUI then because the GUI doesn't scale properly. For Coloring 4 Kids, I had to have two different GUIs for the two resolutions.

So you could roll your own solution. Maybe write your own gui class that uses scenes and bitmap fonts.

If you do decide to use GUI. Look at the reference doc.
http://docs.garagegames.com/tgb/official/index.html?content/documentation/Interface%20Tutorials/Feature/Static%20Sprites.html

You want to start with GUIControl, GuiMLTextCtrl, GuiTextCtrl. Then find sample codes somewhere of an app that uses GUI. Look in TDN: http://tdn.garagegames.com/wiki/TDN_Home&needLogin=1

Torque Owner David Helmer
The Kids
#4
05/29/2012 (8:40 pm)
Ok cool, I've used regular t2d GUI before so I'll check out my old code.

Thanks for the tips. If the only issue with Universal is sizing of the gui and swapping based off of platform, i'll just be mindful of that going for.

As it stands Universal is a nice to have in my book.