Comments on: Simple and Easy to Use Custom Input Manager Class

By: Robbos

Robbos — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:04:39 +0000

What I don’t really like about this approach is that you hardcode the commands instead of letting users choose which key does which action…

But it is good to have an inputmanager though! Good way of preventing keyboard input to be scattered all over your projects. What I usually do is have one class that translates the input to commands and then check if those commands need to be executed in the HandleInput method of other objects. Even better might be to make it fully event based.

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By: Warll

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By: Warll

Warll — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:21:23 +0000

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By: Colby Cheeze

Colby Cheeze — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:03:43 +0000

Glad you like the articles Ben. In order to do some basic collision detection with the entities I have been using the two functions I created under the Entity class: “isOverlapping( Entity )” and “isOverlappingCircle( position, radius )”

Thank you for pointing out the error on the contact form, I’ll be sure to get that fixed up!

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:21:15 +0000

First off, thank you for this great library, its showing me another approach to game development that is very dynamic. I was attempting to have to boids do a collision detection like hitTestObject or hitTestPoint. Even if I type the boids as DisplayObjects, it doesn’t work. I looked through your library but I couldn’t make out how you go about this. Could you write a post about that aspect of building a game with the cheezeworld lib?

I did notice that you have WallAvoidance, but its not a collision.

Thank you again

Ben

p.s.your contact me form gives a 404 eror

By: Colby Cheeze

Colby Cheeze — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:09:58 +0000

I generally don’t use the Input Manager to manage UI interaction such as clicking on buttons. It would be better to create a custom button class that handles events for itself in whatever way you need I believe. That being said, if you WERE to just use the Input Manager, you would have to determine if the mousePos was inside of the bounds of the object you were checking for a click with. I believe I may actually have used a method such as this for clicking units in a little demo app I was working on.

By: Gellyware

Gellyware — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:04:41 +0000

Using the Input manager, how would I determine if a clip has been clicked without adding eventlisteners to that clip?

By: Tintin

Tintin — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:33:30 +0000

Thanks Colby, it helps!

By: Colby Cheeze

Colby Cheeze — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:43:41 +0000

A class that handles all of your Input easily. Rather than setting up event listeners all over your code and looking up key codes you can do something such as: if( Input.instance.isKeyPressed( KeyCode.SPACEBAR ) ) { player.shoot(); }

The class has all kinds of goodies like that. Enjoy