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Author Archives: Ben
Layout Controls: Bindable and Data Bind
There is a lot to say about the theory behind data binding and the types of patterns you can use in developing with a UI that supports data binding. This is not going to address all of that, but I … Continue reading
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Layout Controls: LayoutCheckbox
LayoutCheckbox is a LayoutCapable implementation for UICheckbox. Since LayoutCheckbox uses a UICheckbox for display, the UICheckbox children need to be setup by giving the Box and Checkmark children an atlas and sprite and giving the Label child a font. The … Continue reading
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Layout Controls: LayoutButton
LayoutButton is an implementation of LayoutCapable to give layout capabilities to buttons and is attached to an NGUI UIButton. Just like a normal NGUI button, it has two children: a UISprite background and a UILabel for text. These need to … Continue reading
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Layout Controls: ItemsControl
The ItemsControl component is used to dynamically generate other UI controls. It does not place the elements on its own, it only creates them and adds them as children. The ItemsControl prefab uses a LayoutStackingPanel to manage the placement of … Continue reading
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Layout Controls: Tab Panel
The Tab Panel is a control that ensures only one of its children is visible at a time. It creates a button for each child that controls which child is visible – clicking one of these buttons will show the … Continue reading
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Layout Controls: Scroll Viewer
The LayoutScrollViewer is intended to provide scrolling functionality for its children if they exceed the space available to them. Normally if a control’s minimum size is larger than the area available to it, it will squish up against the right … Continue reading
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Layout Controls: LayoutTable
The LayoutTable places its children in rows and columns that can size themselves in various ways. A demo video can be found here. When a control is place in a table cell (defined by the row and column), it is … Continue reading
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Layout Controls: Stacking Panel
The Stacking Panel is the simplest of the layout controls. It just places each one of its children next to each other, one after the other. LayoutStackingPanel has two properties to edit besides the ones inherited from LayoutCapable. The first … Continue reading
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The Swapper – A Review
A friend gifted this wonderful indie game to me saying, “It’s a 2D platforming puzzle game with incredible visuals (it’s all claymation!) and an eerie story.” That sums up the game perfectly in one sentence. If you like Portal, you’ll … Continue reading
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Game Reviews
As part of my site redesign, I’m going to start writing some game reviews for my blog. I have no idea how it’s going to go, but I think it’s a pretty good exercise in critically thinking about the games … Continue reading
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