Virtual Buttons and DPad

Aloe Guvner · 2018-04-18T03:48:56+0900

Virtual Buttons and DPad by Aloe Guvner Download Link Note: This plugin is not under active maintenance. Background: This plugin focuses on improving the user interface for mobile games created in RPG Maker MV, by allowing the developer to have virtual buttons on the screen that interact with touch input. The emphasis is on maximum flexibility for the developer, you can add as many or as few buttons as you want to the screen, and you can add these buttons on whichever screens you would like (i.e. map, menu, credits, title, etc.). Functionality: This plugin can create 3 different types of buttons: 1.) Directional Pad A single picture which is used for up, left, right, and down movement (also support diagonal movement when combined with a Diagonal Movement plugin). You control what scenes the DPad appears in. This button is optional. 2.) Key buttons These buttons can be used to represent any key. Common keys to use would be "ok" , "escape", "pagedown", "pageup". These can be any key, and there can be as many or as few as the developer would like, and you control what scenes they appear in. Buttons can run Common Events. You can also write custom code that will be run when the button is pressed! You may specify the type of input this button responds to: Triggered: Execute once when pressed (default) Pressed: Execute every frame while pressed Repeated: After 24 frames, execute every 6 frames while pressed Long Pressed: After 24 frames, execute every frame while pressed Released: Execute once when button is released 3.) Control button The control button, if pressed, will collapse and hide all other buttons on the screen. If pressed again, it will expand and show all other buttons on the screen. This allows the player to decide between using the virtual buttons or the standard touch input. The scenes that this button appears in can be defined. This button is optional. Use Cases and Screenshots: {clearly placeholder art below } Spoiler: Use Case example #1 This example uses the DPad and two Key Buttons ("ok" and "escape") to put simple keyboard controls as virtual buttons on the map screen (Scene_Map). Spoiler: Use Case example #2 This example uses buttons with the functionality of "pageup" and "pagedown" in the status screen. These buttons can be put in whichever screen you like. Page Up and Page Down move between actors in the menu, so this would make sense to go in the Status, Equip, and Skill screens (Scene_Status, Scene_Equip, Scene_Skill). Spoiler: Use Case example #3 A virtual button can call custom Javascript code. If you are familiar with the engine, this can be extremely flexible and powerful. In this simple use case, the item screen is opened by pressing the button. Setup: The setup requires a new folder to be created within the img folder of the project. This folder must be named "VirtualButtons". Put all virtual button images in this folder, and then they may be accessed in the plugin parameters. Plugin Commands: * All plugin commands begin with VirtualButtons (MobileUI is also valid, for backwards-compatibility). * All plugin commands are not case sensitive (i.e. "DPad" is the same as "dpad") hide Description: hides the specified button Allowed arguments: DPad Any key button defined by you Control All Examples: VirtualButtons hide DPad virtualbuttons hide Ok MobileUI hide PageDown show Description: shows the specified button Allowed arguments: DPad Any key button defined by you Control All Examples: VirtualButtons show DPad virtualbuttons show Ok MobileUI show PageDown opacity Description: change the opacity of a button Allowed arguments: DPad Any key button defined by you Control All Examples: VirtualButtons opacity dpad 100 VirtualButtons opacity all 50 Terms of Use: Free for use in commercial or non-commercial projects. Credits required to: Aloe Guvner Version History: v2.0.1 (May 13 2019) Fix bug where DPad input wasn't cleared in menus v2.0.0 (May 4 2019) Clears input state on transfer to mitigate stuck DPad input bug Improves clearing of input state each frame to mitigate bug Buttons hidden via plugin command will stay hidden until the show plugin command Key buttons can trigger common events Option to use a "hot" image that shows when the button is pressed Delay parameter to fade-in Plugin command option to show all buttons Plugin command option to hide all buttons Plugin command to change button opacity Add plugin parameter to toggle whether the buttons are hidden during dialogue Fix bug where the DPad would not clear the direction after a parallel event checking for a input direction triggered a Show Choices event command v1.4.0 (December 13 2018) Added ability to configure which buttons are affected by the "control" button Can be used to create dynamic menus v1.3.1 (October 30 2018) Added a parameter to control whether diagonal movement is detected as a possible fix for a hard to reproduce movement bug. v1.3.0 (September 27 2018) Added a parameter to choose to disable the normal touch inpu…

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#121 Jun 16, 2019, 02:19 AM Source

Jenova said:
I actually had the images hosted on my personal website and I moved hosts and had to make the tough decision of getting rid of Cheverato. With this being said, I did not have a physical copy, so I just uploaded what I remember doing.

As for now, this isn't a real #1 priority for me, so its ok if you are busy or take your time looking into it. :)

I didnt even realize this had updated beyond what I had initially reported. Lol, i got no alerts about it either. Oh well. Updated. :)
Kest

#122 Jun 17, 2019, 01:28 AM Source

How do you get this to read the keyboard? I made a button that clicking it opened the item scene directly, but when I tried adding an 'I' keypress nothing happened?
Aloe Guvner

#123 Jun 18, 2019, 06:49 PM Source

huangpeifeng said:
How to display different buttons in different map ID？

Not possible automatically, but you can use plugin commands to hide or show the button on each different map. It could be a Feature Request. Probably it could be implemented with a new plugin parameter inside each button configuration to hold a list of Map IDs. For backwards compatibility, it would have to be Map IDs to hide the button (not show).

Bilalichwa said:
how to disable touch mode and on D-pad mode when Window_EventItem (Select item)

Not possible currently actually, it could be a Feature Request.

Kest said:
How do you get this to read the keyboard? I made a button that clicking it opened the item scene directly, but when I tried adding an 'I' keypress nothing happened?

This plugin doesn't read from the keyboard, it create virtual buttons that are used with touch or mouse. Unless I'm misunderstanding your question? It would help if you shared the configuration you've done.
Kest

#124 Jun 18, 2019, 10:48 PM Source

Aloe Guvner said:
This plugin doesn't read from the keyboard, it create virtual buttons that are used with touch or mouse. Unless I'm misunderstanding your question? It would help if you shared the configuration you've done.
I may have misunderstood what "input code" meant, i tried making a visual button that you could both click and keypress:
Aloe Guvner

#125 Jun 19, 2019, 03:07 AM Source

I see, you have the custom code which opens the item scene when the button is pressed.

It would also simulate the keyboard key "i" as pressed. However, by itself, that doesn't do anything unless some event or plugin is listening for the keyboard key "i". Do you have something that responds to the key "i"?
Kest

#126 Jun 19, 2019, 06:22 AM Source

no, i thought "input code" was the other way around, that pressing "i" would activate the button in addition to clicking it.
Black Mamba

#127 Jun 20, 2019, 09:26 PM Source

I got this error this.containsPoint is not a function
Aloe Guvner

#128 Jun 21, 2019, 05:22 AM Source
When does it happen?
- When the game first loads?
- When a map loads?
- When the Dpad is pressed?
Does it happen on a project with no other plugins?

What's the configuration for the Dpad?
Black Mamba

#129 Jun 21, 2019, 01:09 PM Source
Aloe Guvner said:
When does it happen?

When the game first loads?

When a map loads?

When the Dpad is pressed?

Does it happen on a project with no other plugins?

What's the configuration for the Dpad?
its happens in title screen, when i press any button.
Dpad i just add the button picture
Eliaquim

#130 Jun 28, 2019, 07:56 PM Source

Black Mamba said:
I got this error this.containsPoint is not a function

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Maybe it is related to the version of the rpg core.js? Do you are using the latest? Because here all works on the title screen.
Kest

#131 Jul 10, 2019, 03:06 PM Source

How would I "push" a common event like a scene? For example I have a button with the custom code "SceneManager.push(Scene_Item)" and this will let you open the item screen even in the middle of a message.

I tried making a button for a common event, but it waits for the current message to end before playing - how do I get it to interrupt the current message?
Aloe Guvner

#132 Jul 11, 2019, 03:03 PM Source

The common event feature added in the most recent version uses the "reserveCommonEvent" function which basically puts the common event into a queue, so it gets executed whenever the event interpreter is free.

I'm not sure how to forcibly stop an event to run another one, I think you'd have to somehow insert the common event commands into the currently running interpreter. The good news is that's more of a general MV Javascript question, you may be able to get an answer posting on the Javascript Support boards.
jjleroy

#133 Jul 17, 2019, 10:43 AM Source

That's an amazing plugin and sounds exactly like what I'm searching for. Thank you so much for your work.
Jufry_A

#134 Jul 17, 2019, 01:15 PM Source
Meet random encounter while DPad is Pressed will make button pressed forever and cant to be stopped.
is this a bug?

Solved:
I added
Code:
ALOE.clearDpadInput();
to Scene_Battle start function
NaJOJO

#135 Jul 26, 2019, 06:03 AM Source

Excuse me.I don't know how to deal with it.
Wavelength

#136 Jul 26, 2019, 06:10 AM Source

@NaJOJO I highly recommend getting (and showing us) the stack trace from the Console (like in this post). It will help people track down the bug in the plugin, if there really is one, or will narrow down where you may have made an error if there is no bug. You may need to be in Playtest Mode and you may need to press F8 to access that window with the Console.
NaJOJO

#137 Jul 26, 2019, 06:19 AM Source

OK.I've already done it.
Eliaquim

#138 Jul 26, 2019, 01:00 PM Source

NaJOJO said:
Excuse me.I don't know how to deal with it.

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Hi!
Here I'm seeing two things:

1 - The input code is empty. I'm not sure if it can be empty, even of you put a custom code.

2 - I see that you use a japanese version, so maybe I'm wrong about that. But in the custom code parameter you put
"SceneManager.pushu"
I think the correct is "push".
NaJOJO

#139 Jul 28, 2019, 05:28 AM Source

Eliaquim said:
Hi!
Here I'm seeing two things:

1 - The input code is empty. I'm not sure if it can be empty, even of you put a custom code.

2 - I see that you use a japanese version, so maybe I'm wrong about that. But in the custom code parameter you put
"SceneManager.pushu"
I think the correct is "push".

Thank you.I've dealt with these things you said.But the problem has not been solved yet.
Eliaquim

#140 Jul 28, 2019, 09:17 AM Source

NaJOJO said:
Thank you.I've dealt with these things you said.But the problem has not been solved yet.
Sorry to hear that!
I don't think this is a plugin conflict.
What is the version of Rpg Maker Mv that you are using? Here I'm using the latest 1.6.2, without any plugins, I don't have any problems.
Did you change anything in the core codes of Rm Mv?

Also can you show all your custom code for me to take a look?