as3dpad

as3dpad is a virtual gamepad designed for Adobe AIR mobile. You can develop a iOS/Android game and receive user data from the touch screen. X and Y axis data will be represented to “UP”, “DOWN”, “LEFT”, “RIGHT” and a radians.

Features

• X and Y-axis
• A, B, C and D Buttons
• custom UI
• key mapping for development on desktop (WASD + m,./)
• available with stage3d (e.g.: Starling, Away3D, Alternativa3D...)

What does work

First of all, you'll create an instance of the DPad and add to the stage.

var dPad:DPad = new DPad();
this.addChild(dPad);

Add a detection listener for AxisPad. You'll get values on X and Y-axis.

dPad.leftPad.addEventListener(DPadEvent.TOUCH_PRESS, touchPressHandler);
dPad.leftPad.addEventListener(DPadEvent.TOUCH_RELEASE, touchReleaseHandler);

private function touchPressHandler(event:DPadEvent):void{
  var axisPad:AxisPad = event.target as AxisPad;
  trace("radians: " + axisPad.radians);
  trace("distance: " + axisPad.distance + "/" + axisPad.maxDistance);
  trace("press left:  " + (axisPad.value & AxisPad.LEFT));
  trace("press right: " + (axisPad.value & AxisPad.RIGHT));
  trace("press up:    " + (axisPad.value & AxisPad.UP));
  trace("press down:  " + (axisPad.value & AxisPad.DOWN));
}
private function touchReleaseHandler(event:DPadEvent):void{
  ...
}

Add a detection listener for GroupPad. You'll get values on A and B buttons.

dPad.rightPad.addEventListener(DPadEvent.TOUCH_PRESS_A, touchPressAHandler);
dPad.rightPad.addEventListener(DPadEvent.TOUCH_PRESS_B, touchPressBHandler);
dPad.rightPad.addEventListener(DPadEvent.TOUCH_RELEASE_A, touchReleaseAHandler);
dPad.rightPad.addEventListener(DPadEvent.TOUCH_RELEASE_B, touchReleaseBHandler);

private function touchPressAHandler(event:DPadEvent):void{
  var groupPad:GroupPad = event.target as GroupPad;
  trace("press A: " + (groupPad.value & GroupPad.A_BUTTON));
  trace("press B: " + (groupPad.value & GroupPad.B_BUTTON));
}
private function touchPressBHandler(event:DPadEvent):void{
	...
}
private function touchReleaseAHandler(event:DPadEvent):void{
	...
}
private function touchReleaseBHandler(event:DPadEvent):void{
	...
}

Examples

• example01_basic demo
• example02_custom_UI demo
• example03_double_AxisPad demo
• example04_touch9Grid demo
• example05_starling demo

(Click the image to see some demos. Be patient, no preloader!)

Download

SWC Library - as3dpad.swc

License

Copyright (C) 2012 Marco Wong, http://flash-adobe.blogspot.hk/

Licence Agreement (The MIT License)

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