Hi all,
I first designed my levels individually and each level had 3 gameobjects that would acquire_input_focus:
- game_manager: this would allow me to tap on sprites in game.
- game-gui: allowing me to click on the pause button and UI buttons.
- status UI: this would be a column of buttons that would enable and appear next to a gameobject that would allow me to click on them.
in the init(self) of all these components I have written: msg.post(".", "acquire_input_focus").
Everything was working perfectly and there were no problems , none of the elements overlap and even if they do, I would consume the input by return true.
Now that I have a few levels designed, I wanted to add them to my main menu collection so that they could be loaded up when needed.
And immediately I had problems and the input would not work when loading the levels.
I solved this by adding the following line to my level_loader.script:
elseif message_id == hash("proxy_loaded") then
-- auto sent by collection proxy after it has been loaded to memory, so we just enable it
msg.post(sender, "enable")
-- Pass input focus to the newly loaded level
msg.post(sender, "acquire_input_focus")
Adding the line msg.post(sender, "acquire_input_focus") made the input to work again and I could have the functionality of my game_manager input.
But this works only if I keep the msg.post(".", "acquire_input_focus") in my game_manager.script, if I comment it out it wont work.
whats more is that now the game UI and the status UI dont work, although they have msg.post(".", "acquire_input_focus") in their init(self) functions.
so to fix this I added the following to my game_manager:
msg.post(".", "acquire_input_focus")
msg.post("game_gui#game_gui", "acquire_input_focus")
and the UI started working again.
And now I have to do this every time any gameobject releases input focus, I have to call a function that will request the input focus for all gameobjects in scene.
for example when the game is pause, I dont want the player to interact with the towers so I do msg.post(".", "release_input_focus") when the game is paused and then do msg.post(".", "acquire_input_focus") when the game resumes.
But by doing that the UI no longer works and the status panel also stops working unless I sequentially request input focus for all component as explained above.
is this the correct way to do this? I feel this may not be the right way and Im doing something wrong here.