J2ME + text input in game
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Hello!
Recently I came across a serious problem. I need a way to retrieve character strings from the user (such as login, player name etc). The point is that I don't want to use a standard TextBox or TextField since it would kill menu appearance of the game. In optimal solution, I'd like to deriviate a new class from TextBox where I would take care of drawing the control myself. The advantage of TextBox is that the input is phone-specific so you don't need to care about different keyboards yourself.
Unfortunately, I haven't seen any solution in any game for J2ME yet. Thus, I think it's not a trivial thing.
If you have any ideas, please let me know.
Thank you!
How about a "block" with letters and a moving cursor, just like the input for high-scores in old arcades?
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Good luck with your project!! :)
A B C D E F G H
I J K L M N O P
Q R S T U V W X
Y Z ! ? $ % Del End
Good luck with your project!! :)
or you may try another "arcade" input system, like:
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with a cursor (^) , use left-right to move to next position, up-down to select from a range of letters/numbers/other chars.
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with a cursor (^) , use left-right to move to next position, up-down to select from a range of letters/numbers/other chars.
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Quote:Original post by DrBlort
How about a "block" with letters and a moving cursor, just like the input for high-scores in old arcades?
Yes, I was thinking about that. :) The problem is that the solution should be more general. For instance, I'd like to make a chat using my custom graphics display only. How can I do that without the TextBox? Should I 'simply' write implementations for all possible keyboards types ? ;)
Thanks!
There are a few GUI libraries with this functionality available. The best known are J2ME Polish and Synclast.
shmoove
shmoove
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You are the best, shmoove! Thanks a lot :D
Edit : I haven't investigated J2ME Polish too deeply but is it possible to display a GameCanvas and put some additional controls (such as TextBox) on top of it ?
Edit : I haven't investigated J2ME Polish too deeply but is it possible to display a GameCanvas and put some additional controls (such as TextBox) on top of it ?
You can't use the high level UI items on a Canvas. But as far as I remember J2ME Polish can take the code for a Form based GUI and convert into it's graphical UI automatically.
shmoove
shmoove
Can someone please share where to find an implementation for text input for a canvas object. Really need it..thanks
rishit
rishit
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