ui.GestureView is now deprecated. Now what?

[Davide Aimone]

Hi,

like the subject of this thread, what is the replacement of GestureView?

Thank you

[Jimmy Griffith]

Hey Davide,

There really isn't a replacement that does exactly that, but we found that particular class was causing people a lot of trouble. It doesn't follow best practices for user experience and has some bugs. I think to achieve the best input behavior in your game, you should use the default input API to create your own; it's typically a very small amount of code.

I took some notes on the API recently, here's a brief summary I put together. On any instance of View, you can add "listeners" for input like this:

	// mouse/touch down
	this.onInputStart = function (startEvent, startPoint) { // call startDrag if you want to follow a drag, it can also take opts, // like { radius: 50 }
	this.startDrag();
	};
	// triggered if startDrag is called, once drag radius is met
	this.onDragStart = function (dragEvent) {};
	// fires each tick after onDragStart while a player is still dragging
	this.onDrag = function (dragEvent, moveEvent, delta) {};
	// fires instead of onInputSelect after dragging
	this.onDragStop = function (dragEvent, stopEvent) {};
	// fires each tick while mouse/touch moving or dragging // includes mouse over events
	this.onInputMove = function () {};
	// fires on mouse/touch up, only if not dragging
	this.onInputSelect = function (stopEvent, stopPoint) {};

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[Davide Aimone]

Thank you Jimmy, I think GV is still good in some easy case, but I understand what you mean.