Sortable and Droppable Menu & Menu Items

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Sortable and Droppable Menu & Menu Items

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Started 2 years ago by Jamorn
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Jamorn
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Hey guys, I'm currently toying with an idea of creating a class to handle a sortable menu something akin to the Mac OS X doc. This feature would make my game extremely user-friendly and add to the experience tremendously but right now I'm wondering if the current cocos classes can be extended to perform this function.

I am thinking of using the Menu and MenuItemAtlasSprite classes for this but not too sure if it'll be a problem later on. Anybody have any suggestions? In the mean time I'll go ahead and start writing it out and will probably share the finished code once it's done so other people who need this class can make use of it.

Posted 2 years ago #
Jamorn
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With a lot of help from my friend, I got this working!

I subclassed Menu and MenuItem for this to work. My friend's implementation of this was slightly different, he created it from scratch, subclassing Layer, but then again he had to re-implement itemForTouch: and a lot of other stuff which I adopted into my Menu subclass instead.

However... I don't think it's very modular and it's not clean enough for others to use just yet. Right now it's very specific for my game AND it currently only works with version 0.8.2

Posted 2 years ago #
exorcyze
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That's very cool, looks good!

Maybe if you have a generic version of it you could submit the new Menu subclass to the code base?

Posted 2 years ago #
Jamorn
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I definitely want to do that after I clean this up. Not too sure if people will need this but it couldn't hurt to contribute right?

Posted 2 years ago #
exorcyze
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I would completely agree - I can't see any instances where I would personally need it in the near future, but I think that it can never hurt to have more of these types of things available in the community.

And who knows, maybe if it's available then people will start to use it in their apps knowing that they can easily accomplish it if clients ask.

=)

Posted 2 years ago #
Lam
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It would be nice to have a more robust menu framework on top of cocos2d and this would be a great addition.

Posted 2 years ago #
hm50
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@Jamorn Just checking in, have you had time to make this modular? Very neat effect! I have an idea for it's use in one of my existing apps.

Thanks,
Harv

Posted 1 year ago #
cocos2dbeginner
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@Jamorn Did you clean up the code so can you share it with us ;) ?

Posted 1 year ago #
Jamorn
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Wow... lol this has been a long time since I posted this. Sorry guys, maybe you've all forgot about this functionality now but I've finally got the time to make it more general for you guys to use. I've posted the source code here:
http://jamornh.com/creating-cocos2d-dock-implementation-ccmenudo

Enjoy and let me know if you've had any issues using it and what awesome games you're going to be using it for! :D

Posted 4 months ago #

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