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#1

Hello
I have completed walking-astronaut game
Can you tell me how to add “Enter your name” Gui screen for mobile device ?
So user enters his name
I know how to make it display once
But dont know how to implement it (and the transfer between screens)
if you can give sample code is usefull!
Thanks

#2

Hello
Any help please?

#3

Hello @Salmo!

Check out a basic example:

Check out this thread on showing keyboard on mobile:

For more advanced usage check out GUI libraries like Gooey:

Or Druid:

If you will stuck with something specific, let us know :wink:

For this I recommend Monarch:

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#4

Im doing it with simple collection proxy
I have gameplay.collection which holds all the gamelpay

and opening.collection, which contains 1 game object (welcomegameobject) that has collection proxy to point to gameplay.collecction

the welcomegameobject go, has a gui file welcome.gui that has script file
welcome.gui_script

upon clicking , it should load gaemplay.collection, BUT ITS NOT LOADING IT, ALL I SEE IS BLAcK SCREEn, PLEASE HELP

_G.username = ""
local is_main_loaded = false 

function init(self)
	-- Acquire input focus for this GUI
	msg.post(".", "acquire_input_focus")
	-- Initialize message
	self.message = ""
	-- Show keyboard
	gui.show_keyboard(gui.KEYBOARD_TYPE_DEFAULT, false)
	-- Get reference to the continue button
	self.continuebutton = gui.get_node("continuebutton")
end

function on_input(self, action_id, action)
	if action_id == hash("touch") then
		-- Check if the touch event is on the continue button
		if gui.pick_node(self.continuebutton, action.x, action.y) then
			print("Continue button clicked")

			-- Get the text from the label node
			local label_node = gui.get_node("labelidhere")
			_G.username = gui.get_text(label_node)
			print("Username set to:", _G.username)

			-- Load the gameplay collection if it's not already loaded
			if not is_main_loaded then
				print("Loading gameplay.collection...")
				msg.post("welcomegameobject#main_proxy", "load")
				is_main_loaded = true
			else
				print("Gameplay collection is already loaded.")
			end
		end
	end

	-- Handle text input
	if action_id == hash("type") then
		self.message = self.message .. action.text
		local label_node = gui.get_node("labelidhere")
		gui.set_text(label_node, self.message)
	elseif action_id == hash("backspace") and action.repeated then
		local l = string.len(self.message)
		self.message = string.sub(self.message, 0, l - 1)
		local label_node = gui.get_node("labelidhere")
		gui.set_text(label_node, self.message)
	end
end

function on_message(self, message_id, message, sender)
	if message_id == hash("proxy_loaded") then
		print("Collection loaded:", sender)
		-- Disable GUI elements from the current screen
		gui.set_enabled(gui.get_node("continuebutton"), false)
		gui.set_enabled(gui.get_node("labelidhere"), false)
		-- Optionally disable or remove the entire opening collection if necessary
		is_main_loaded = true
	elseif message_id == hash("proxy_unloaded") then
		print("Collection unloaded:", sender)
		is_main_loaded = false
	end
end

your code goes here

please help me @Pawel

#5

I think you are just forgetting to enable the collection when you receive the “proxy_loaded” message

function on_message(self, message_id, message, sender)
    if message_id == hash("proxy_loaded") then

        -- New world is loaded. Init and enable it.
        msg.post(sender, "init")
        msg.post(sender, "enable")

        -- Disable GUI elements from the current screen
		gui.set_enabled(gui.get_node("continuebutton"), false)
		gui.set_enabled(gui.get_node("labelidhere"), false)
		-- Optionally disable or remove the entire opening collection if necessary
		is_main_loaded = true
    end
end

you can check the manual, they show how you enable the collection once it’s loaded

Also you don’t get any errors in the console?

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