Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Cocos2d-x cookbook

You're reading from   Cocos2d-x cookbook Over 50 hands-on recipes to help you efficiently administer and maintain your games with Cocos2d-x

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783284757
Length 254 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Akihiro Matsuura Akihiro Matsuura
Author Profile Icon Akihiro Matsuura
Akihiro Matsuura
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Cocos2d-x FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Sprites 3. Working with Labels 4. Building Scenes and Layers 5. Creating GUIs 6. Playing Sounds 7. Working with Resource Files 8. Working with Hardware 9. Controlling Physics 10. Improving Games with Extra Features 11. Taking Advantages Index

Creating sliders


In this recipe, we will explain the slider. The slider will be used for tasks such as changing the volume of the sound or music. Cocos2d-x has a Slider class for it. If we use this class, we can create a slider easily.

Getting ready

So, let's prepare the images of the slider before we start. Please add these images in the Resouces/res folder.

  • sliderTrack.png: Background of the slider

  • sliderThumb.png: Image to move the slider

How to do it...

Let's create a slider by using the Slider class. First, you will generate a slider instance by using the sliderTrack.png image and the sliderThumb.png image. You will also specify the callback function as a lambda expression by using the addEventListener method when the slider value is changed.

auto slider = ui::Slider::create("res/sliderTrack.png",
"res/sliderThumb.png");
slider->setPosition(size/2);
this->addChild(slider);
slider->addEventListener([](Ref* sender, ui::Slider::EventType
type){
    auto slider = dynamic_cast<ui...
lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image