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by CosmicFloppyDisk
Tue Sep 13, 2016 1:10 am
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Removing/Deleting Metatables!
Replies: 9
Views: 4157

Re: Removing/Deleting Metatables!

Thanks guys, I sure this will help :)
by CosmicFloppyDisk
Sun Sep 11, 2016 9:49 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Removing/Deleting Metatables!
Replies: 9
Views: 4157

Re: Removing/Deleting Metatables!

Unless they have specific function to destroy the window, you should hide it and remove all references to it, thereby making it garbage-collectible. The garbage collector, seeing as the table is no longer used, will collect it and remove from memory. Note that while technically still around, the mo...
by CosmicFloppyDisk
Sun Sep 11, 2016 9:18 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Removing/Deleting Metatables!
Replies: 9
Views: 4157

Removing/Deleting Metatables!

I might just be retarded or something but I can't do it. Well you see I have these metatables used to create as many window objects as I want, it's quite nice. Accept when you press the "X out" button I don't know how to delete the window, the closest I've come is setting a variable "...
by CosmicFloppyDisk
Wed Aug 24, 2016 12:34 am
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: How to Solve Mouse Clicks on Multiple Layers?
Replies: 4
Views: 3217

Re: How to Solve Mouse Clicks on Multiple Layers?

Plu wrote:You could give each view a z-index, and hit them in order of z-index with an option on the event to stop propagation. That's basically how HTML/Javascript does it.
I like that idea a lot, and now feel dumb for not thinking that :D
by CosmicFloppyDisk
Tue Aug 23, 2016 9:07 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: How to Solve Mouse Clicks on Multiple Layers?
Replies: 4
Views: 3217

Re: How to Solve Mouse Clicks on Multiple Layers?

The simplest solution would be to design your UI so nothing overlaps. If it's an issue of both a button and a window registering mouse click events at the same time, Then If a button was clicked, Don't trigger the event in the window containing it. If it's an issue of windows overlapping, It would ...
by CosmicFloppyDisk
Tue Aug 23, 2016 8:39 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: How to Solve Mouse Clicks on Multiple Layers?
Replies: 4
Views: 3217

How to Solve Mouse Clicks on Multiple Layers?

Hi, I'm working on a game and have made some metatables for like buttons and windows, both have a handler metatable respectively called either button manager or window manager, in them is a function I run in love.update called WindowManager:doEvents() or ButtonManager:doEvents() which tests if mouse...
by CosmicFloppyDisk
Sun Sep 13, 2015 12:28 am
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Image Layering/generating
Replies: 2
Views: 1147

Re: Image Layering/generating

Ok ill try that thanks
by CosmicFloppyDisk
Sat Sep 12, 2015 12:40 am
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Image Layering/generating
Replies: 2
Views: 1147

Image Layering/generating

So probably a stupid question but I'm kinda new to love and 2d game making, but in simple game i want to create you "jump between planets" in your spaceship, now each planet I want to be randomly generated by having some base images like cloud cover and planet color and moons. Now I realiz...