Hi, this is like 10th topic I post here and hopefully will get response this time, other times did not have much luck

I am starting game development with OpenGL as Android developer. So far I've been C++ developer and I think I won't have any problems (not so far) in learning OpenGL wrapped within Android. I am having though some questions that I'd like to hear from professionals but none in my surroundings exist, nor I've found info online:

1. I have created simple button over GLSurfaceView. The button is not Android button (View) but a simple Rect drawn with OpenGL and with Texture on it. When the user clicks on it I need some operation to be performed. I can't find way to map the 'rect' over the GLSurfaceView so that I check whether the user has clicked over the rect where the 'button' is drawn (I can't map the button's coordinates within the surface view).

2. I don't get the whole GLSurfaceView with the change of views and renderer. I.e. when the user clicks "Start" I need another view to appear showing another drawn elements on it. I suppose I would need another View but I guess I don't need another Renderer. How do I tell the same renderer (for different views) to draw/behave differently? I.e. to render different objects?

Thanks in advance,
bashing and critics is welcomed.

Hi afail,

q1:
Rect and RectF have a method called .contains()
Would that not be usable?

Schermvlieger wrote:Hi afail,

q1:
Rect and RectF have a method called .contains()
Would that not be usable?

That would be lovely and was hoping for similar method but I am not using the Rect class, I am simply creating vertices and connecting them with a indexes. When I said 'rect' I meant 'rectangle that I get by connecting 4 points in the coord.system.'.

thanks.

afail wrote:1. I have created simple button over GLSurfaceView. The button is not Android button (View) but a simple Rect drawn with OpenGL and with Texture on it. When the user clicks on it I need some operation to be performed. I can't find way to map the 'rect' over the GLSurfaceView so that I check whether the user has clicked over the rect where the 'button' is drawn (I can't map the button's coordinates within the surface view).

I use OnTouch. I convert the x,y coordinates that onTouch provides to x and y coordinates that are correct for my OpenGL world and then I just do if (x>blah) and (x<blah) statements. I suppose I should write a little button class for this. In the example below, my world is 4 units tall with a y from -2 to 2. getHeight() and getWidth() are my own methods that return the height and width of the screen in pixels.

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public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
   float x = event.getX();
        float y = event.getY();
       
        if(event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
             // Convert to world x,y coordinates
             float ratio = 4f/((float) getHeight());
             y = getHeight() - y;
             y = y - ((float)getHeight())/2f;
             y = y * ratio;
             x = x - ((float)getWidth())/2f;
             x = x * ratio;
              
             if (x<0.4f && x>-0.4f && y<0.4f && y>-0.4f)
             {
                // Do button action
             }
          }
}


2. I don't get the whole GLSurfaceView with the change of views and renderer. I.e. when the user clicks "Start" I need another view to appear showing another drawn elements on it. I suppose I would need another View but I guess I don't need another Renderer. How do I tell the same renderer (for different views) to draw/behave differently? I.e. to render different objects?
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That sounds complicated. Instead, I have a state variable for what state the view is in. Like VIEW_STATE_MENU or VIEW_STATE_PLAYING. In OnDraw, I just have and if statement that calls my menu_draw() routine when I am in the menu state and the game_draw() routine when the user is playing. You need to do a similar thing in your onTouch().

Hope this helps.
Charlie

I get it man. You're the greatest. Never thought of the proportions of the OpenGL world within the Android View. Also the drawing technique you described is applicable. Will try this tomorrow morning. Wish you the best, and thanks!