Week 46: support for touch screen devices
Added 2023-09-18 17:55:24 +0000 UTCThis week I worked on improving support for mouse and touch devices. This was one of the items I listed in the to-do list for the minimal demo that I hope to publish soon. It ended up being all Lua coding work.
In the first part of the week I focused on menus. It is now possible to launch and select items using touch gestures and mouse clicks.
I then moved to work on a new “virtual joystick” with the aim of allowing the demo to run more nicely on mobile devices… well, only via the browser for now. The idea is that when the player touches a certain area of the screen a stylized picture of a joystick shows. This virtual joystick can be controlled with touch gestures and produces corresponding joystick events. Not rocket science, but all stuff worth doing for the release, I think.
I attach a video to show what I have at the moment. There is still some work to make the menus more consistent and the general user experience better. Then I need to try the demo on more devices. That scares me a bit. Fingers crossed!
