Menu - alignItemsInRows / Columns Question

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Menu - alignItemsInRows / Columns Question

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Started 2 years ago by Zemm
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Zemm
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The quick version of the question is: Is there a way to provide spacing or padding arguments to Menu - alignItemsInRows/Columns?

The long version follows:

When the user clicks on Start Game on my main menu I switch the scene to a new Menu Scene with a Menu that I want to have two MenuItemLabels (titles) each above their corresponding MenuItemToggles followed by a blank row, followed by a row with MenuItems that allow the user to Go Back or Start Game.

I have this set up using the following code:

[MenuItemFont setFontName:@"Courier-Bold"];
		[MenuItemFont setFontSize:26];
        MenuItemLabel *leftTitle = [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@"Left Player"];
        leftTitle.disabledColor = [leftTitle color];
        [leftTitle setIsEnabled:NO];

        MenuItemLabel *rightTitle = [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@"Right Player"];
        rightTitle.disabledColor = [rightTitle color];
        [rightTitle setIsEnabled:NO];

        MenuItem *back = [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@"Go Back"
                                                target:self
                                              selector:@selector(goBack:)];
        MenuItem *play = [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@"Play"
                                                target:self
                                              selector:@selector(play:)];

		[MenuItemFont setFontName:@"Courier"];
		[MenuItemFont setFontSize:24];
        MenuItemToggle *leftType = [MenuItemToggle itemWithTarget:self selector:@selector(typeChanged:) items:
                                    [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@"Local"],
                                    [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@"Computer"],
                                    [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@"Network"],
                                    nil];

        MenuItemToggle *rightType = [MenuItemToggle itemWithTarget:self selector:@selector(typeChanged:) items:
                                     [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@"Local"],
                                     [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@"Computer"],
                                     [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@"Network"],
                                     nil];

        MenuItemLabel *spacer = [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@" "];
        MenuItemLabel *spacer2 = [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@" "];
        MenuItemLabel *spacer3 = [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@" "];
        MenuItemLabel *spacer4 = [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@" "];

        Menu *menu = [Menu menuWithItems:
                      leftTitle, leftType, spacer, back,
                      rightTitle, rightType, spacer2, play,
                      nil];

        [menu alignItemsInRows:
         [NSNumber numberWithInt:4],
         [NSNumber numberWithInt:4],
         nil];

It works and is laid out pretty much how I'd like, the only problem is the two title labels butt right up against each other so I was hoping to find some way of feeding alignItemsInRows (or Columns) a padding or spacing argument, but so far have been unsuccessful in that search.

Any tips on how to get this done correctly will be greatly appreciated!

Posted 2 years ago #

Zemm
Member

Ok, nevermind, I got it. Thanks to some help from lhunath. I guess I just needed to continue down my path of using spacer items. Here's what the working code looks like for anybody else who might run into the same thing as me:

[MenuItemFont setFontName:@"Courier-Bold"];
	[MenuItemFont setFontSize:26];
        MenuItemLabel *leftTitle = [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@"Left Player"];
        leftTitle.disabledColor = [leftTitle color];
        [leftTitle setIsEnabled:NO];

        MenuItemLabel *rightTitle = [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@"Right Player"];
        rightTitle.disabledColor = [rightTitle color];
        [rightTitle setIsEnabled:NO];

        MenuItem *back = [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@"Go Back"
                                                target:self
                                              selector:@selector(goBack:)];
        MenuItem *play = [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@"Play"
                                                target:self
                                              selector:@selector(play:)];

	[MenuItemFont setFontName:@"Courier"];
	[MenuItemFont setFontSize:24];
        MenuItemToggle *leftType = [MenuItemToggle itemWithTarget:self selector:@selector(typeChanged:) items:
                                    [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@"Local"],
                                    [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@"Computer"],
                                    [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@"Network"],
                                    nil];

        MenuItemToggle *rightType = [MenuItemToggle itemWithTarget:self selector:@selector(typeChanged:) items:
                                     [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@"Local"],
                                     [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@"Computer"],
                                     [MenuItemFont itemFromString:@"Network"],
                                     nil];

        NSString *spc = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"   "];
        MenuItemLabel *spacer = [MenuItemFont itemFromString:spc];
        MenuItemLabel *spacer2 = [MenuItemFont itemFromString:spc];
        MenuItemLabel *spacer3 = [MenuItemFont itemFromString:spc];

        Menu *menu = [Menu menuWithItems:
                      leftTitle, leftType, spacer, back,
                      spacer3,
                      rightTitle, rightType, spacer2, play,
                      nil];

        [menu alignItemsInRows:
         [NSNumber numberWithInt:4],
         [NSNumber numberWithInt:1],
         [NSNumber numberWithInt:4],
         nil];

Posted 2 years ago #

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