Hello everyone, I’m new to Defold, and this is my first post on this forum. In my first project, I’m trying to recreate a keyboard, which is a fundamental element of my game.
So, I created a GUI, added a “general” node, and inside it, I created a node for each key. Then, I created a GUI script to manage the keyboard (mainly, the script should allow the keys to send a message based on the pressed letter, just like a regular keyboard, in addition to handling key press animations).
The problem is that I’m not sure how to manage this in the most correct and efficient way. With action.x and action.y, I can get the click coordinates, but after checking the GUI functions, I couldn’t find one that allows me to get the node at those coordinates.
The gui.pick_node function might be helpful, but it requires the node ID as a parameter. To use it, I would have to loop through all the nodes in the GUI on every click, and that doesn’t seem like a good idea since the GUI will be clicked many times in quick succession.
Does anyone have any advice on this? Is using a GUI not the best option? Should I use simple game objects for each key instead? Or is there a simple and smart way to efficiently handle key clicks in the GUI?
Thanks!
